Fedora 15 : mozilla-https-everywhere-2.0.3-2.fc15 (2012-7175)

high Nessus Plugin ID 58985

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Fix a possible SSL downgrade vulnerability. Fix upstream bug 5676, which fixes an SSL downgrade attack. Fix upstream bug 5676, which fixes an SSL downgrade attack. Fix upstream bug 5676, which fixes an SSL downgrade attack. Fix upstream bug 5676, which fixes an SSL downgrade attack. Fix upstream bug 5676, which fixes an SSL downgrade attack.

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 mozilla-https-everywhere package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?839d2d3a

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 58985

File Name: fedora_2012-7175.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/4/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:mozilla-https-everywhere, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:15

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

Patch Publication Date: 5/3/2012

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2012-7175