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Fedora 24 : lxc (2016-b4dd1db1e7)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 95784

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update LXC to the latest stable version.

See [here](https://linuxcontainers.org/lxc/news/) for the list of changes.

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 lxc package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-b4dd1db1e7

https://linuxcontainers.org/lxc/news/

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 95784

File Name: fedora_2016-b4dd1db1e7.nasl

Version: 3.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/14/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:lxc, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:24

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/13/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/1/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-8649