Fedora 22 : sddm-0.12.0-5.fc22 (2015-9f996ea146)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 89341

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

sddm-0.12.0-5.fc22 - Security fix for CVE-2015-0856 ---- Refresh to latest stable upstream release, see:
https://github.com/sddm/sddm/wiki/0.12.0 -Release-Announcement

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 sddm package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1271992

https://github.com/sddm/sddm/wiki

http://www.nessus.org/u?a37fe8bc

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 89341

File Name: fedora_2015-9f996ea146.nasl

Version: 1.4

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: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/12/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-0856