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Fedora 26 : sharutils (2018-4e657bf5e3)

high Nessus Plugin ID 107163

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This release fixes a heap buffer overflow when processing a shar archive by unshar tool if the arhive contains overlong lines.

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 sharutils package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-4e657bf5e3

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 107163

File Name: fedora_2018-4e657bf5e3.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/7/2018

Updated: 1/6/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:sharutils, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:26

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/6/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/6/2018

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