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Fedora 21 : patch-2.7.4-1.fc21 (2015-1553)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 81174

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Latest upstream release, restoring the ability to create symbolic links referencing '..' pathname components and preventing a local denial of service.

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 patch package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1188578

http://www.nessus.org/u?ef7bc0d6

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 81174

File Name: fedora_2015-1553.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/5/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:21, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:patch

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/2/2015

Reference Information

BID: 72074, 72286

FEDORA: 2015-1553