Fedora 21 : libssh-0.6.5-1.fc21 (2015-7590)

high Nessus Plugin ID 83478

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Security fix for CVE-2015-3146

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 libssh package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1213775

http://www.nessus.org/u?2e24d2c2

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 83478

File Name: fedora_2015-7590.nasl

Version: 2.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/15/2015

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

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libssh, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:21

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

Patch Publication Date: 5/6/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-3146

FEDORA: 2015-7590