Fedora 17 : openconnect-3.18-1.fc17 (2012-6689)

high Nessus Plugin ID 59001

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update fixes a potential buffer overrun when handling the greeting banner from the server. This update fixes a potential crash when processing libproxy results, and introduces some performance improvements.

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 openconnect package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?31f4f960

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 59001

File Name: fedora_2012-6689.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/7/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:openconnect, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:17

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

Patch Publication Date: 4/26/2012

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2012-6689