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Fedora 23 : xerces-c-3.1.3-1.fc23 (2016-ae9ac16cf3)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 90518

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update to xerces-c 3.1.3, fixing CVE-2016-0729

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 xerces-c package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1312231

http://www.nessus.org/u?9201a02e

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 90518

File Name: fedora_2016-ae9ac16cf3.nasl

Version: 2.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/14/2016

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:xerces-c

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

Patch Publication Date: 4/13/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-0729