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Fedora 22 : dropbear-2016.72-1.fc22 (2016-40a657cee1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 90132

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

CVE-2016-3116 dropbear: X11 forwarding input not validated properly

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 dropbear package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1316826

http://www.nessus.org/u?39f9a2e2

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 90132

File Name: fedora_2016-40a657cee1.nasl

Version: 2.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/24/2016

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:22, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:dropbear

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: 3/23/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-3116