Fedora 23 : glibc-2.22-15.fc23 (2016-68abc0be35)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 91063

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update contains minor security fixes (for CVE-2016-3075, CVE-2016-1234, CVE-2015-8778, CVE-2015-8776, CVE-2014-9761, CVE-2015-8779) and collects fixes for bugs encountered by Fedora users.

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 glibc package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1288740

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1293139

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1300300

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1300304

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1300311

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1300314

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1307234

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1313404

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1315648

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1316972

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1321372

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1321861

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1321954

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1332912

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1332914

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1332917

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1333901

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1333940

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1333945

http://www.nessus.org/u?d5fd1005

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 91063

File Name: fedora_2016-68abc0be35.nasl

Version: 2.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/12/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

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: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:glibc, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:23

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

Patch Publication Date: 5/10/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-9761, CVE-2015-8776, CVE-2015-8778, CVE-2015-8779, CVE-2016-1234, CVE-2016-3075