Fedora 20 : kde-workspace-4.11.14-1.fc20 (2014-14813)

high Nessus Plugin ID 79263

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

New security fix release, privilege escalation issue, see also https://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20141106-1.txt

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 kde-workspace package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1163778

http://www.nessus.org/u?169964cc

https://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20141106-1.txt

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 79263

File Name: fedora_2014-14813.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/17/2014

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: 7.2

Temporal Score: 6.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kde-workspace, 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: 11/13/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-8651

BID: 70904

FEDORA: 2014-14813