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Fedora 20 : a2ps-4.14-23.fc20 (2014-4691)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 73926

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update fixes a security problem in the fixps utility (CVE-2014-0466).

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 a2ps package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1082410

http://www.nessus.org/u?020ffe0e

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 73926

File Name: fedora_2014-4691.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/9/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:a2ps, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:20

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

Patch Publication Date: 4/2/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-0466

FEDORA: 2014-4691