Fedora 30 : nethack (2019-79b80b66d9)

high Nessus Plugin ID 132651

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update to NetHack 3.6.4 - fixes security issue with privilege escalation: http://nethack.org/security/index.html

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 nethack package.

See Also

http://nethack.org/security/index.html

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-79b80b66d9

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 132651

File Name: fedora_2019-79b80b66d9.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/6/2020

Updated: 1/6/2020

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:nethack, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:30

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

Patch Publication Date: 1/3/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/3/2020

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