Fedora 16 : dropbear-0.55-1.fc16 (2012-10934)

high Nessus Plugin ID 60148

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update to 0.55, fix CVE-2012-0920.

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 dropbear package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=783776

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=800656

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=800657

http://www.nessus.org/u?d65f9e10

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 60148

File Name: fedora_2012-10934.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/30/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 6.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:dropbear, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:16

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/21/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-0920

BID: 52159

FEDORA: 2012-10934