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Fedora 22: Critical Update For OpenVAS Scanner XSS Issue

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Calendar Grey May 8, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 23 launches vital patch for openvas-scanner, mitigating CVE-2016-1926 cross-site scripting threat that jeopardizes users' security.
Bump to latest upstream bugfix releases

Summary

Scanner module for the Open Vulnerability Assessment System (OpenVAS).

Update Information:

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

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security advisory Fedora XSS critical risk openvas-scanner

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

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Name: openvas-scanner
Product: Fedora 22
Version: 5.0.5
Release: 3.fc22
URL:
Summary: Open Vulnerability Assessment (OpenVAS) Scanner

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security advisory Fedora XSS critical risk openvas-scanner

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