Fedora 22 : exiv2-0.24-5.fc22 (2016-ff39572e31)

high Nessus Plugin ID 89706

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Avoid possible XML entity expansion security issue.

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 exiv2 package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=888769

http://www.nessus.org/u?5d750e0f

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 89706

File Name: fedora_2016-ff39572e31.nasl

Version: 2.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/7/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:exiv2, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:22

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/6/2016

Reference Information