p2putil.c in iNet wireless daemon (IWD) through 2.15 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact because of initialization issues in situations where parsing of advertised service information fails.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - p2putil.c in iNet wireless daemon (IWD) through 2.15 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon     crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact because of initialization issues in situations where     parsing of advertised service information fails. (CVE-2024-28084)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The remote Fedora 40 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-3fa713f2e0 advisory.

    iwd 2.16:

            Fix issue with uninitialized variable and DPP encrypt.
            Fix issue with Access Point mode and ATTR_MAC validation.
            Fix issue with Access Point mode and frequency attributes.
            Fix issue with P2P and handling client info description.
            Fix issue with P2P and handling parsing of service info.
            Fix issue with netconfig and handling domain list.
            Add support for forcing a default ECC group.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 39 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-4ef5edfb2a advisory.

    iwd 2.16:

            Fix issue with uninitialized variable and DPP encrypt.
            Fix issue with Access Point mode and ATTR_MAC validation.
            Fix issue with Access Point mode and frequency attributes.
            Fix issue with P2P and handling client info description.
            Fix issue with P2P and handling parsing of service info.
            Fix issue with netconfig and handling domain list.
            Add support for forcing a default ECC group.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
227456	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-28084	Nessus	Misc.	high
194688	Fedora 40 : iwd (2024-3fa713f2e0)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
192168	Fedora 39 : iwd (2024-4ef5edfb2a)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high

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CVE-2024-28084

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Tenable Plugins

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