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Fedora 23 : mingw-libxml2-2.9.3-1.fc23 (2016-189a7bf68c)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 89484

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update to 2.9.3 which fixes various CVE's

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 mingw-libxml2 package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1262853

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1274225

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1276299

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1277149

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1281952

http://www.nessus.org/u?e4706f27

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 89484

File Name: fedora_2016-189a7bf68c.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/4/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:23, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:mingw-libxml2

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/16/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-7941, CVE-2015-7942, CVE-2015-8035