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Fedora 23 : jakarta-commons-httpclient-3.1-23.fc23 (2015-15590)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 86230

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update fixes CVE-2015-5262 denial of service security vulnerability by respectinc configured SO_TIMEOUT parameter during SSL handshake.

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 jakarta-commons-httpclient package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1261538

http://www.nessus.org/u?fe7e1956

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 86230

File Name: fedora_2015-15590.nasl

Version: 2.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/2/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:23, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:jakarta-commons-httpclient

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

Patch Publication Date: 10/1/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-5262

FEDORA: 2015-15590