Fedora 18 : qt-4.8.3-3.fc18 (2012-15067)

high Nessus Plugin ID 62400

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

New upstream release, patched to disable SSL/TLS compression by default avoiding CRIME attacks, see also http://qt.digia.com/Release-Notes/security-issue-september-2012/

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 qt package.

See Also

http://qt.digia.com/Release-Notes/security-issue-september-2012/

http://www.nessus.org/u?4e29cc94

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 62400

File Name: fedora_2012-15067.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/3/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:qt, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:18

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

Patch Publication Date: 9/29/2012

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2012-15067