Fedora 19 : hivex-1.3.8-2.fc19 (2014-15833)

high Nessus Plugin ID 79785

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Fix handling of invalid hive files.

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 hivex package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?6b89cd32

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 79785

File Name: fedora_2014-15833.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/7/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:hivex, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:19

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/27/2014

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2014-15833