Fedora 20 : cabextract-1.5-1.fc20 (2015-2730)

low Nessus Plugin ID 81707

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Security fix for directory traversal with UTF-8 symbols in filenames.
Fixed in upstream version 1.5.

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 cabextract package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1193952

http://www.nessus.org/u?b3ac2083

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 81707

File Name: fedora_2015-2730.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/10/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 1.9

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/27/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-2060

FEDORA: 2015-2730