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Fedora 25 : lightdm (2017-66adafeb3b)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 103232

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Disable guest login as system default preset (CVE-2017-8900)

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 lightdm package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-66adafeb3b

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 103232

File Name: fedora_2017-66adafeb3b.nasl

Version: 3.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/15/2017

Updated: 11/21/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-8900

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 4

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:25, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:lightdm

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/14/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/12/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-8900