Fedora 23 : openssh-7.0p1-1.fc23 (2015-13439)

high Nessus Plugin ID 85482

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

New upstream release, fixing several security issues and providing pam_ssh_agent_auth functionality.

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 openssh package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1252844

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1252852

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1252861

http://www.nessus.org/u?03865e19

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 85482

File Name: fedora_2015-13439.nasl

Version: 2.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/18/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:openssh, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:23

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

Patch Publication Date: 8/14/2015

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2015-13439