Fedora 23 : mingw-nsis (2016-637618fcd4)

high Nessus Plugin ID 95581

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

New upstream version 2.50.

- Fixes serious DLL hijacking attack:
https://sourceforge.net/p/nsis/bugs/1125/

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected mingw-nsis package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-637618fcd4

https://sourceforge.net/p/nsis/bugs/1125/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 95581

File Name: fedora_2016-637618fcd4.nasl

Version: 3.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/7/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:mingw-nsis, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:23

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/6/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/6/2016

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