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Fedora 9: FEDORA-2009-0636 Moderate: Nessus OpenSSL Check Issue

fedora
Calendar Grey January 26, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Crucial Nessus upgrade for Fedora 9 resolves OpenSSL verification problems, providing improved security measures.
libnasl: OpenSSL incorrect checks for malformed signatures https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=479655

Summary

Nessus is the world's most popular vulnerability scanner used in over 75,000

organizations world-wide. Many of the world's largest organizations are

realizing significant cost savings by using Nessus to audit business-critical

enterprise devices and applications.

The "Nessus" Project was started by Renaud Deraison in 1998 to provide to the

internet community a free, powerful, up-to-date and easy to use remote

security scanner. Nessus is currently rated among the top products of its type

throughout the security industry and is endorsed by professional information

security organizations such as the SANS Institute.

* Sun Nov 23 2008 Andreas Bierfert

- 2.2.11-1

- fix #465113 FTBFS

[ 1 ] Bug #479655 - libnasl: OpenSSL incorrect checks for malformed signatures

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=479655

su -c 'yum update nessus-core' at the command line.

For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",

available at .

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

Fedora-package-announce mailing list

Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/

Change Log

References

Update Instructions

Product: Fedora 9
Version: 2.2.11
Release: 1.fc9
Summary: Network vulnerability scanner

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