Fedora 20 : libreoffice-4.2.8.2-8.fc20 (2015-7213)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 83325

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

CVE-2015-1774: out-of-bounds write in HWP file filter

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 libreoffice package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1216042

http://www.nessus.org/u?e800a3ce

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 83325

File Name: fedora_2015-7213.nasl

Version: 2.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/11/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 4/30/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-1774

FEDORA: 2015-7213