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Fedora 20 : facter-1.7.6-1.fc20 (2014-12699)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 79389

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update to 1.7.6 for bz#1107891 and CVE-2014-3248

See http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-3248 for more information upstream.

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 facter package.

See Also

https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2014-3248

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1101346

http://www.nessus.org/u?05588d94

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 79389

File Name: fedora_2014-12699.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/24/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.2

Temporal Score: 5.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:facter, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:20

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/12/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-3248

BID: 68035

FEDORA: 2014-12699