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Fedora 21 : exiv2-0.24-4.fc21 (2015-0301)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 80892

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Security fix for CVE-2014-9449

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected exiv2 package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1178908

http://www.nessus.org/u?28939d1f

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 80892

File Name: fedora_2015-0301.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/22/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:exiv2, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:21

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/7/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-9449

BID: 71912

FEDORA: 2015-0301