Fedora 16 : plexus-cipher-1.5-11.fc16 (2012-19267)

high Nessus Plugin ID 63179

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update fixes a security bug by improving randomness of generated cipher salt.

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 plexus-cipher package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=880279

http://www.nessus.org/u?a3539e60

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 63179

File Name: fedora_2012-19267.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/7/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/28/2012

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2012-19267