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Fedora 20 : testdisk-7.0-2.fc20 (2015-6933)

high Nessus Plugin ID 83321

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

TestDisk 7.0 fixes several stack overflows. The new photorec is faster. qphotorec is a qt4 version of PhotoRec. Full release notes:
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_7.0_Release

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 testdisk package.

See Also

https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_7.0_Release

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1036410

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1116512

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1213070

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1214681

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1215250

http://www.nessus.org/u?87ff678e

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 83321

File Name: fedora_2015-6933.nasl

Version: 2.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/11/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:testdisk, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:20

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

Patch Publication Date: 4/26/2015

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2015-6933