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Fedora 21 : libzip-0.11.2-5.fc21 (2015-4699)

high Nessus Plugin ID 82942

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

CVE-2015-2331: integer overflow when processing ZIP archives (#1204676,#1204677)

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 libzip package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1204676

http://www.nessus.org/u?6b353b56

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 82942

File Name: fedora_2015-4699.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/22/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/26/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-2331

FEDORA: 2015-4699