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Fedora 24 : libdb (2017-014d67fa9d)

high Nessus Plugin ID 101495

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Security fix for DB_CONFIG parsing when db_home is not set.

This update also introduces modified fixes for rhbz#1394862 once again and additionally fixes ppc specific hangs described in rhbz#1460003.

Please be aware that this update is expected to cause
**DB_VERSION_MISMATCH** errors during installation if you are still running an older release of libdb. These errors are a result of packages calling rpm commands during installation and have so far been found harmless.

You can also run into issues with dnf plugins that do the same. As these plugins are run after the rpm transaction has already gone through successfully they should also be harmless. However, in this case a rebuild of rpmdb's environment will be needed. Detailed information on how to achieve this can be found in the links below.

For more information please take a look at :

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F26_bugs#upgrade-libdb https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F26_bugs#libdb-rebuilddb

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 libdb package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-014d67fa9d

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 101495

File Name: fedora_2017-014d67fa9d.nasl

Version: 3.4

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/13/2017

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:24, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libdb

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

Patch Publication Date: 7/11/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/11/2017

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