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Fedora 23 : exim-4.86.2-1.fc23 (2016-e062971917)

high Nessus Plugin ID 89891

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This is new version fixing local privilege escalation for set-uid root when using perl_startup.

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 exim package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1314293

http://www.nessus.org/u?76b9485b

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 89891

File Name: fedora_2016-e062971917.nasl

Version: 2.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/14/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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: 3/12/2016

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-1531