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Fedora 25 : mbedtls (2017-9ed1b89530)

high Nessus Plugin ID 97970

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Update to 2.4.2

 - CVE-2017-2784

Release notes:
https://tls.mbed.org/tech-updates/releases/mbedtls-2.4.2-2.1.7-and-1.3 .19-released Security notes:
https://tls.mbed.org/tech-updates/security-advisories/mbedtls-security
-advisory-2017-01

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 mbedtls package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-9ed1b89530

http://www.nessus.org/u?a5dfef80

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 97970

File Name: fedora_2017-9ed1b89530.nasl

Version: 3.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/27/2017

Updated: 12/29/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-2784

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/24/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/20/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-2784