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Fedora 19 : perl-Authen-Captcha-1.024-1.fc19 (2014-4454)

high Nessus Plugin ID 73360

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

An issue in previous versions of perl-Authen-Captcha is that the generated public string (file name of the picture) for the captcha is merely a checksum of the secret string. It is trivial to break such short strings even using google instead of a rainbow table.

Version 1.024 of the module fixes this.

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 perl-Authen-Captcha package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?8b8ac220

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 73360

File Name: fedora_2014-4454.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/7/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl-authen-captcha, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:19

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/28/2014

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2014-4454