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Fedora 35 : grub2 (2022-7ce9378e90)

high Nessus Plugin ID 169016

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Fedora 35 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2022-7ce9378e90 advisory.

 - put the font back in /boot for now

 Yes, this bloats size by a couple meg. Hopefully this won't cause problems for anyone and everyone can be okay with this CVE fix update.

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 - Adjust the way we provide unicode.pf2 for post-CVE lockdown policy

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 Two font-related CVE updates (CVE-2022-2601 and CVE-2022-3775). For more information, see [upstream's disclosure](https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2022-11/msg00059.html) or the patches themselves.


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.

Solution

Update the affected 1:grub2 package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2022-7ce9378e90

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 169016

File Name: fedora_2022-7ce9378e90.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/21/2022

Updated: 11/14/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-2601

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.6

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:grub2, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:35

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: 11/23/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/23/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-2601, CVE-2022-3775