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Fedora 22 : bouncycastle-1.50-8.fc22 (2015-7d95466eda)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 89298

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Security fix for CVE-2015-7940

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 bouncycastle package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1276272

http://www.nessus.org/u?98f40c66

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 89298

File Name: fedora_2015-7d95466eda.nasl

Version: 2.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/4/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:22, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:bouncycastle

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

Patch Publication Date: 1/4/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-7940