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Fedora 25 : smack (2016-897a1e6698)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 96210

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

fix for 'TLS SecurityMode.required bypass via StripTLS attack' (rhbz#1406703,1406704)

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 smack package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-897a1e6698

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 96210

File Name: fedora_2016-897a1e6698.nasl

Version: 3.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/3/2017

Updated: 1/7/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-10027

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/29/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/12/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-10027