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Fedora 31 : libidn2 (2019-f454c7a118)

high Nessus Plugin ID 131147

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Libidn 2.3.0 (released 2019-11-14) ==================================

 - Mitre has assigned CVE-2019-12290 which was fixed by the roundtrip feature introduced in 2.2.0 (commit 241e8f48)

 - Update the data tables from Unicode 6.3.0 to Unicode 11.0

 - Turn `_idn2_punycode_encode`, `_idn2_punycode_decode` into compat symbols (Fixes #74)

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Solution

Update the affected libidn2 package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-f454c7a118

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 131147

File Name: fedora_2019-f454c7a118.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/20/2019

Updated: 4/11/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-12290

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:31, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libidn2

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/20/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/22/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-12290