Fedora 21 : polkit-0.113-4.fc21 (2015-11743)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 84907

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Security fix for CVE-2015-3218, CVE-2015-3255, CVE-2015-3256, CVE-2015-4625.

Please make sure to reboot or run (systemctl restart polkit.service) after applying this update.

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 polkit package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 84907

File Name: fedora_2015-11743.nasl

Version: 2.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 7/22/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 7/17/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-3218, CVE-2015-4625

FEDORA: 2015-11743

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