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Fedora 29 : systemd (2019-8a7dfdf1f3)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 129030

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Security issue: unprivileged users were allowed to change DNS servers configured in systemd-resolved (CVE-2019-15718)

 - hwdb entries for keyboards are updated to the latest version (#1725717)

No need to log out or reboot.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected systemd package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-8a7dfdf1f3

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 129030

File Name: fedora_2019-8a7dfdf1f3.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/19/2019

Updated: 4/24/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.6

Temporal Score: 2.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-15718

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

Temporal Score: 4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:29, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:systemd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/19/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/4/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-15718