Fedora 21 : libuser-0.62-1.fc21 (2015-12064)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 85167

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Security fix for CVE-2015-3245, CVE-2015-3246

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 libuser package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 85167

File Name: fedora_2015-12064.nasl

Version: 2.15

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 8/3/2015

Updated: 8/26/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.6

Percentile: 98.37

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 6.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-3246

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

Temporal Score: 4.9

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:H/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:21, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libuser

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/29/2015

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 9/9/2026

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Metasploit (Libuser roothelper Privilege Escalation)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-3245, CVE-2015-3246

FEDORA: 2015-12064

IAVA: 2015-A-0179

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