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Fedora: 2015-10514 Moderate: OpenVAS-Libraries Scanner Support Update

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Calendar Grey June 30, 2015
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CentOS Update Alert for openvas-modules highlights resolved issues and enhancements implemented for scanning tools in this release.
Bump to openvas8 because of the issues found in previous versions

Summary

openvas-libraries is the base library for the OpenVAS network

security scanner.

Update Information:

Bump to openvas8 because of the issues found in previous versions. This should be the first version with scanner really working on Fedora.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update Fedora update information openvas openvas-libraries scanner support

Change Log

* Thu Jun 18 2015 Fedora Release Engineering - 8.0.3-2 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_23_Mass_Rebuild * Sat May 23 2015 Michal Ambroz - 8.0.3-1 - bump to OpenVas-8 version 8.0.3 * Sat Apr 4 2015 Michal Ambroz - 7.0.9-1 - bump to OpenVas-7 version 7.0.9 * Sat Dec 6 2014 Michal Ambroz - 7.0.6-1 - bump to OpenVas-7 version 7.0.6 * Tue Nov 4 2014 Michal Ambroz - 7.0.5-1 - bump to OpenVas-7 version 7.0.5

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1169170 - openvas-manager: SQL injection related to the timezone parameter [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1169170

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update openvas-libraries' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

Name: openvas-libraries
Product: Fedora 21
Version: 8.0.3
Release: 2.fc21
URL:
Summary: Support libraries for Open Vulnerability Assessment (OpenVAS) Scanner

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update Fedora update information openvas openvas-libraries scanner support

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