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Fedora 24 : flex (2016-c9ad9582f7)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 92808

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Change type for num_to_read from yy_size_t to int.

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 flex package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-c9ad9582f7

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 92808

File Name: fedora_2016-c9ad9582f7.nasl

Version: 2.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/9/2016

Updated: 1/29/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-6354

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:flex, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:24

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/8/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/21/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-6354