Fedora 31 : git (2019-c841bcc3b9)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 132119

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Per the upstream release announcement¹, this release fixes 'various security flaws, which allowed an attacker to overwrite arbitrary paths, remotely execute code, and/or overwrite files in the .git/ directory etc. See the release notes attached for the list for their descriptions and CVE identifiers.'

Refer to the 2.14.6 release notes² for details on these vulnerabilities and the 2.24.0 release notes³ for details on other improvements and fixes since 2.23.0.

¹
https://lore.kernel.org/git/[email protected] / ²
https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/RelNotes/2.14.6.txt ³
https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/RelNotes/2.24.0.txt

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 git package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 132119

File Name: fedora_2019-c841bcc3b9.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 12/18/2019

Updated: 4/4/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 7.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-19604

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-1353

Vulnerability Information

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

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: 12/18/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/11/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-1348, CVE-2019-1349, CVE-2019-1350, CVE-2019-1351, CVE-2019-1352, CVE-2019-1353, CVE-2019-1354, CVE-2019-1387, CVE-2019-19604

FEDORA: 2019-c841bcc3b9

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