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Fedora 32 : libmetalink (2020-c3ca827d31)

high Nessus Plugin ID 139525

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Patched null ptr dereference

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 libmetalink package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-c3ca827d31

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 139525

File Name: fedora_2020-c3ca827d31.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/12/2020

Updated: 8/12/2020

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:32, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libmetalink

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

Patch Publication Date: 8/11/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/11/2020

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