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Fedora 21 : rest-0.7.93-1.fc21 (2015-4596)

high Nessus Plugin ID 82868

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

CVE-2015-2675 rest: memory corruption when using oauth because of implicit declaration of rest_proxy_call_get_url

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 rest package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1112497

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1204682

http://www.nessus.org/u?4cdd8c1d

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 82868

File Name: fedora_2015-4596.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/20/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/26/2015

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2015-4596