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Mcafee Foundstone Fsl Update 2016-DEC-15 FSL version 7.5.876 MCAFEE FOUNDSTONE FSL UPDATE To better protect your environment McAfee has created this FSL check update for the Foundstone Product Suite. The following is a detailed summary of the new and updated checks included with this release. NEW CHECKS 132310 - Oracle VM OVMSA-2016-0175 Update Is Not Installed Category: SSH Module -> NonIntrusive -> Oracle VM Patches and Hotfixes Risk Level: High CVE: CVE-2016-8650, CVE-2016-9555 Description The scan detected that the host is missing the following update: OVMSA-2016-0175 Observation Updates often remediate critical security problems that should be quickly addressed. 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For more information see: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2927.html RHEL6S x86_64 rh-mariadb100-mariadb-bench-10.0.28-5.el6 rh-mariadb100-mariadb-errmsg-10.0.28-5.el6 rh-mariadb100-mariadb-config-10.0.28-5.el6 rh-mariadb100-mariadb-oqgraph-engine-10.0.28-5.el6 rh-mariadb100-mariadb-devel-10.0.28-5.el6 rh-mariadb100-mariadb-10.0.28-5.el6 rh-mariadb100-mariadb-test-10.0.28-5.el6 rh-mariadb100-mariadb-debuginfo-10.0.28-5.el6 rh-mariadb100-mariadb-common-10.0.28-5.el6 rh-mariadb100-mariadb-server-10.0.28-5.el6 RHEL6WS x86_64 rh-mariadb100-mariadb-bench-10.0.28-5.el6 rh-mariadb100-mariadb-errmsg-10.0.28-5.el6 rh-mariadb100-mariadb-config-10.0.28-5.el6 rh-mariadb100-mariadb-oqgraph-engine-10.0.28-5.el6 rh-mariadb100-mariadb-devel-10.0.28-5.el6 rh-mariadb100-mariadb-10.0.28-5.el6 rh-mariadb100-mariadb-test-10.0.28-5.el6 rh-mariadb100-mariadb-debuginfo-10.0.28-5.el6 rh-mariadb100-mariadb-common-10.0.28-5.el6 rh-mariadb100-mariadb-server-10.0.28-5.el6 RHEL7S x86_64 rh-mariadb100-mariadb-config-10.0.28-5.el7 rh-mariadb100-mariadb-oqgraph-engine-10.0.28-5.el7 rh-mariadb100-mariadb-errmsg-10.0.28-5.el7 rh-mariadb100-mariadb-test-10.0.28-5.el7 rh-mariadb100-mariadb-server-10.0.28-5.el7 rh-mariadb100-mariadb-devel-10.0.28-5.el7 rh-mariadb100-mariadb-bench-10.0.28-5.el7 rh-mariadb100-mariadb-debuginfo-10.0.28-5.el7 rh-mariadb100-mariadb-common-10.0.28-5.el7 rh-mariadb100-mariadb-10.0.28-5.el7 RHEL7WS x86_64 rh-mariadb100-mariadb-config-10.0.28-5.el7 rh-mariadb100-mariadb-oqgraph-engine-10.0.28-5.el7 rh-mariadb100-mariadb-errmsg-10.0.28-5.el7 rh-mariadb100-mariadb-test-10.0.28-5.el7 rh-mariadb100-mariadb-server-10.0.28-5.el7 rh-mariadb100-mariadb-devel-10.0.28-5.el7 rh-mariadb100-mariadb-bench-10.0.28-5.el7 rh-mariadb100-mariadb-debuginfo-10.0.28-5.el7 rh-mariadb100-mariadb-common-10.0.28-5.el7 rh-mariadb100-mariadb-10.0.28-5.el7 145056 - SuSE Linux 13.2 openSUSE-SU-2016:3061-1 Update Is Not Installed Category: SSH Module -> NonIntrusive -> SuSE Patches and Hotfixes Risk Level: High CVE: CVE-2015-8962, CVE-2015-8963, CVE-2016-7042, CVE-2016-7910, CVE-2016-7911, CVE-2016-7913, CVE-2016-7914, CVE- 2016-7916, CVE-2016-8633, CVE-2016-8646, CVE-2016-8655, CVE-2016-9555 Description The scan detected that the host is missing the following update: openSUSE-SU-2016:3061-1 Observation Updates often remediate critical security problems that should be quickly addressed. 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