Fedora 23 : torbrowser-launcher-0.2.4-1.fc23 (2016-b98995ae24)

high Nessus Plugin ID 90163

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Fix signature verification bypass attack, reported by Jann Horn

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 torbrowser-launcher package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1317324

http://www.nessus.org/u?930a1507

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 90163

File Name: fedora_2016-b98995ae24.nasl

Version: 2.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/25/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:torbrowser-launcher, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:23

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/24/2016

Reference Information