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Fedora 24 : gnome-boxes (2017-42df4eeb59)

high Nessus Plugin ID 97165

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

gnome-boxes 3.20.4 release, fixing a possible security issue with storing the express installation password in clear text.

 - Store the user password in the keyring during an express installation.

 - Fix typo in debug string.

 - Fix printf format strings.

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 gnome-boxes package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-42df4eeb59

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 97165

File Name: fedora_2017-42df4eeb59.nasl

Version: 3.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/15/2017

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:gnome-boxes, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:24

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/9/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/9/2017

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