Fedora 23 : nettle-3.2-1.fc23 (2016-89968f88d2)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 89576

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

updated to 3.2 (#1301310)

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 nettle package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1304303

http://www.nessus.org/u?52750550

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 89576

File Name: fedora_2016-89968f88d2.nasl

Version: 1.5

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: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/4/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8803