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Fedora 23 : golang-1.5.4-1.fc23 (2016-2fcfc7670f)

high Nessus Plugin ID 90729

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Security fix for CVE-2016-3959

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 golang package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1324343

http://www.nessus.org/u?08f3294f

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 90729

File Name: fedora_2016-2fcfc7670f.nasl

Version: 2.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/27/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 4/25/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-3959