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OpenVAS-GSA Security Update in Fedora 22 Addresses XSS Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey May 8, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Critical security patch for Fedora 22 openvas-gsa resolving XSS vulnerability linked to CVE-2016-1926 with the newest upstream bugfix updates.
Bump to latest upstream bugfix releases

Summary

The Greenbone Security Assistant (GSA) is a lean web service offering a user

web interface for the Open Vulnerability Assessment System (OpenVAS).

The GSA uses XSL transformation style-sheets that converts OMP responses

from the OpenVAS infrastructure into presentable HTML.

Update Information:

Bump to latest upstream bugfix releases. Contains Security fix for CVE-2016-1926

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora XSS security fix bugfix release openvas-gsa

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1300683 - CVE-2016-1926 openvas-gsa: XSS vulnerability due to improper handling of the parameters of get_aggregate command https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1300683

Update Instructions

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

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Name: openvas-gsa
Product: Fedora 22
Version: 6.0.10
Release: 3.fc22
URL:
Summary: Greenbone Security Assistant (GSA) is GUI to the OpenVAS

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora XSS security fix bugfix release openvas-gsa

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