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Fedora 20 : cxxtools-2.2.1-1.fc20 (2014-1207)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 72192

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

this is a security update that fixes the following bug :

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1055373 [Bug 1055373] CVE-2013-7298 cxxtools: DoS via crafted HTTP query parameter

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 cxxtools package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1055373

http://www.nessus.org/u?b799ea05

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 72192

File Name: fedora_2014-1207.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/29/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:cxxtools, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:20

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/21/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-7298

BID: 65020

FEDORA: 2014-1207