Fedora 21 : patch-2.7.5-1.fc21 (2015-3556)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 82049

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update allows symlinks again.

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 patch package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1182157

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1199684

http://www.nessus.org/u?001d4e99

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 82049

File Name: fedora_2015-3556.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/25/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/9/2015

Reference Information

BID: 72074, 72286

FEDORA: 2015-3556