Mismatches in interpreting USB authorization policy between GNOME Settings Daemon (GSD) through 46.0 and the Linux kernel's underlying device matching logic allow a physically proximate attacker to access some unintended Linux kernel USB functionality, such as USB device-specific kernel modules and filesystem implementations. NOTE: the GSD supplier indicates that consideration of a mitigation for this within GSD would be in the context of "a new feature, not a CVE."

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

  - Mismatches in interpreting USB authorization policy between GNOME Settings Daemon (GSD) through 46.0 and     the Linux kernel's underlying device matching logic allow a physically proximate attacker to access some     unintended Linux kernel USB functionality, such as USB device-specific kernel modules and filesystem     implementations. NOTE: the GSD supplier indicates that consideration of a mitigation for this within GSD     would be in the context of a new feature, not a CVE. (CVE-2024-38394)

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

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:2170-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2024-38394: Fixed mismatches in interpreting USB authorization policy (bsc#1226423).

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

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

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:2168-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2024-38394: Fixed mismatches in interpreting USB authorization policy (bsc#1226423).

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

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
229438	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-38394	Nessus	Misc.	medium
200893	SUSE SLES15 Security Update : gnome-settings-daemon (SUSE-SU-2024:2170-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
200890	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : gnome-settings-daemon (SUSE-SU-2024:2168-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium

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