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Fedora 22: 2015-10946 Moderate: Openvas-Libraries SQL Injection Fix

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Calendar Grey July 14, 2015
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The latest patch addresses earlier bugs in openvas-libraries, guaranteeing that the scanning tool operates effectively on Fedora 22.
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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security advisory security update Fedora SQL injection network scanner openvas

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

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 .

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Name: openvas-libraries
Product: Fedora 22
Version: 8.0.3
Release: 2.fc22
URL:
Summary: Support libraries for Open Vulnerability Assessment (OpenVAS) Scanner

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update Fedora SQL injection network scanner openvas

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