Fedora 18 : libxslt-1.1.27-2.fc18 (2012-15716)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 63195

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Fix a default namespace regression in 1.1.27 Upstream new release also including a number of security fixes

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected libxslt package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=684386

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=788826

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=835982

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=852935

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=852937

http://www.nessus.org/u?283d32f5

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 63195

File Name: fedora_2012-15716.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/10/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libxslt, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:18

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/9/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1202, CVE-2011-3970, CVE-2012-2825, CVE-2012-2870, CVE-2012-2871

BID: 47668, 51911, 54203, 55331

FEDORA: 2012-15716