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Fedora 25 : libass (2016-d2a05a0644)

high Nessus Plugin ID 94865

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Fedora 25 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2016-d2a05a0644 advisory.

 Fixes CVE-2016-7969, CVE-2016-7970 and CVE-2016-7972

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 Update to 0.13.3.

 Contains various bugfixes.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected libass package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-d2a05a0644

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 94865

File Name: fedora_2016-d2a05a0644.nasl

Version: 2.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/15/2016

Updated: 8/29/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-7972

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libass, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:25

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

Patch Publication Date: 10/28/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/3/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-7969, CVE-2016-7970, CVE-2016-7972