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Fedora 23 : nfdump (2016-54dfd21f15)

high Nessus Plugin ID 92096

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

nfdump 1.6.15 released.

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 - Fix Security issue http://www.security-assessment.com/files/documents/advis ory/Nfdump%20nfcapd%201.6.14%20-%20Multiple%20Vulnerabil ities.pdf

 - Fix obyte, opps and obps output records

 - Fix wrong bps type case in cvs output. Fix opbs ipbs typos

nfdump 1.6.14 released.

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 - Create libnfdump for dynamic linking

 - Add -R to ModifyCompression

 - Add std sampler ID 4 Bytes and allow random sampler (tag 50)

 - Add BZ2 compression along existing LZ0

 - Add direct write to flowtools converter ft2nfdump

 - Fix CentOS compile issues with flow-tools converter

 - Fix FreeBSD,OpenBSD build problems

 - Fix timestamp overflow in sflow.c

 - Fix IP Fragmentation in sflow collector

 - Fix compile errors on other platforms

 - Fix zero alignment bug, if only half of an extension is sent

 - Fix nfanon time window bug in subsequent files in -R list

 - Fix CommonRecordV0Type conversion bug

 - Fix nfexport bug, if only one single map exists

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected nfdump package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-54dfd21f15

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 92096

File Name: fedora_2016-54dfd21f15.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/14/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 6/20/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/20/2016

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