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Fedora 22: 2016:9851b69dbb Critical: Openvas-Libraries XSS Issue

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Calendar Grey May 8, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 22 has rolled out a critical security patch for openvas-libraries that mitigates a cross-site scripting vulnerability present in the application.
Bump to latest upstream bugfix releases

Summary

openvas-libraries is the base library for the OpenVAS network

security scanner.

Update Information:

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

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update Fedora XSS security fix openvas-libraries

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-libraries' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: openvas-libraries
Product: Fedora 22
Version: 8.0.7
Release: 2.fc22
URL:
Summary: Support libraries for Open Vulnerability Assessment (OpenVAS) Scanner

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update Fedora XSS security fix openvas-libraries

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