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Fedora 20 : libtasn1-3.8-3.fc20 (2015-5182)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 82872

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

backported fix for stack overflow in DER decoder

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 libtasn1 package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1207192

http://www.nessus.org/u?72b1422d

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 82872

File Name: fedora_2015-5182.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/20/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:20, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libtasn1

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/31/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-2806

FEDORA: 2015-5182