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Fedora 21 : nbd-3.11-1.fc21 (2015-12703)

high Nessus Plugin ID 85391

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Fix unsafe signal handlers to avoid DoS attack [CVE-2015-0847].

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 nbd package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1222027

http://www.nessus.org/u?73b56aca

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 85391

File Name: fedora_2015-12703.nasl

Version: 2.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/14/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 8/4/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-0847

FEDORA: 2015-12703