Fedora 23 : slock (2016-7e817cbf55)

high Nessus Plugin ID 93423

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This release fixes CVE-2016-6866, a crash when verifying a password for a user without a valid shadow hash entry.

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Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected slock package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-7e817cbf55

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 93423

File Name: fedora_2016-7e817cbf55.nasl

Version: 2.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/12/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 9/9/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/15/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-6866