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Fedora 23 : shellinabox-2.19-1.fc23 (2015-1c773e8702)

high Nessus Plugin ID 89163

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Added support for middle-click paste * Improved iOS support * New logic to enable soft keyboard icon * Disable HTTPS fallback using the URL /plain.
 Consequently disables automatic upgrades from HTTP to HTTPS (CVE-2015-8400)

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 shellinabox package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1287578

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1287579

http://www.nessus.org/u?3ba30dba

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 89163

File Name: fedora_2015-1c773e8702.nasl

Version: 2.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/4/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:23, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:shellinabox

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

Patch Publication Date: 1/7/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8400