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Fedora 21 : e2fsprogs-1.42.12-1.fc21 (2015-1840)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 81221

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

New upstream release Security fix for CVE-2015-0247

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 e2fsprogs package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1187032

http://www.nessus.org/u?510c0ddf

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 81221

File Name: fedora_2015-1840.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/9/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:21, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:e2fsprogs

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/7/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-0247

FEDORA: 2015-1840