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Fedora 23 : wpa_supplicant-2.4-6.fc23 (2015-6f16b5e39e)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 89277

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

wpa_supplicant-2.4-6.fc23 - Make sure that network filesystems are unmounted when shutting down (rh #1214466) - CVE-2015-4142: AP WMM:
Fix integer underflow in WMM Action frame parser (rh #1221178)

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Solution

Update the affected wpa_supplicant package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1221178

http://www.nessus.org/u?156ee59e

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 89277

File Name: fedora_2015-6f16b5e39e.nasl

Version: 2.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/4/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

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: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:wpa_supplicant, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:23

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/12/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-4142