Fedora 18 : gsi-openssh-6.1p1-5.fc18 (2013-5057)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 65974

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Security fix for vulnerability

- http://grid.ncsa.illinois.edu/ssh/pamuserchange-2013-01.
adv

- https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/SVG:Advisory-SVG-2013-5168

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 gsi-openssh package.

See Also

http://grid.ncsa.illinois.edu/ssh/pamuserchange-2013-01.adv

http://www.nessus.org/u?87a8dfde

https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/SVG:Advisory-SVG-2013-5168

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 65974

File Name: fedora_2013-5057.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/16/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:gsi-openssh, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:18

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/6/2013

Reference Information

BID: 58894

FEDORA: 2013-5057