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Fedora 21 : libhtp-0.5.16-1.fc21 (2014-16880)

high Nessus Plugin ID 80835

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

### 0.5.16 (11 December 2014)

 - Per personality requestline leading whitespace handling [Victor Julien]

 - Improve request line parsing with leading spaces [Victor Julien]

 - Harden decompress code against memory stress [Victor Julien]

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 libhtp package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1173605

http://www.nessus.org/u?626bd445

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 80835

File Name: fedora_2014-16880.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/20/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/13/2014

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2014-16880