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Fedora 27 : wayland (2017-b414bd5b99)

high Nessus Plugin ID 105959

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update fixes a possible heap overflow when parsing malicious cursor files. See https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2017-November/035 979.html for details.

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 wayland package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-b414bd5b99

http://www.nessus.org/u?218f5146

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 105959

File Name: fedora_2017-b414bd5b99.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/15/2018

Updated: 1/6/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:wayland, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:27

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/19/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/19/2017

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