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Fedora 23 : bugzilla (2016-6cdcddef2c)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 92107

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

The bugzilla devs discovered that a specially crafted bug summary could trigger XSS in dependency graphs (CVE-2016-2803). This release fixes the issue.

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A bug in Bugzilla caused it to send improperly formatted email addresses. This update contains the fix to this problem.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected bugzilla package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-6cdcddef2c

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 92107

File Name: fedora_2016-6cdcddef2c.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/14/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 5/28/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/12/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-2803