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Fedora 28 : libzypp / zypper (2018-13f9b69e5c)

high Nessus Plugin ID 120246

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Update to `libzypp-17.6.2` and `zypper-1.14.8` to fix a vulnerability in which a malicious mirror could send infinite amounts of data to Zypper and it will consume it without validating how large the download should be.

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 libzypp and / or zypper packages.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-13f9b69e5c

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 120246

File Name: fedora_2018-13f9b69e5c.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/3/2019

Updated: 1/6/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:28, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:zypper, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libzypp

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

Patch Publication Date: 8/30/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/30/2018

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