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Fedora 24 : bzip2 (2016-fd44637912)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 96291

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

CVE-2016-3189 bzip2: heap use after free in bzip2recover

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 bzip2 package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-fd44637912

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 96291

File Name: fedora_2016-fd44637912.nasl

Version: 3.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/5/2017

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: 4.3

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:bzip2, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:24

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

Patch Publication Date: 1/4/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/30/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-3189