Fedora 22 : rsyslog-8.8.0-3.fc22 (2015-11039)

high Nessus Plugin ID 84777

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Besides other changes, this update mitigates this vulnerability:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-3243

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 rsyslog package.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2015-3243

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1224538

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1224972

http://www.nessus.org/u?cce968c0

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 84777

File Name: fedora_2015-11039.nasl

Version: 2.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/16/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:rsyslog, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:22

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

Patch Publication Date: 7/3/2015

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2015-11039