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Fedora 21 : libxml2-2.9.1-7.fc21 (2015-4658)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 82627

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

fixes built in also added a couple of other entities related patches including a fix to CVE-2014-3660

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 libxml2 package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1090976

http://www.nessus.org/u?bea9144b

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 82627

File Name: fedora_2015-4658.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/8/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libxml2, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:21

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/26/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-0191

FEDORA: 2015-4658