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Fedora 23 : openssh-7.2p2-1.fc23 (2016-bb59db3c86)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 89887

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update provides recent upstream (security) release, sanitizing X11 authentication credentials.

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 openssh package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1316829

http://www.nessus.org/u?9cba1a66

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 89887

File Name: fedora_2016-bb59db3c86.nasl

Version: 2.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/14/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/13/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-3115