Fedora 36 : woff (2022-706c76c4f0)

high Nessus Plugin ID 169036

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 36 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2022-706c76c4f0 advisory.

Fix a possible double free in `woffEncode()`.

- Update License to SPDX
- improved summary and description
- Add hand-written man pages
- Install HTML format description as documentation

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

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

Solution

Update the affected woff package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2022-706c76c4f0

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 169036

File Name: fedora_2022-706c76c4f0.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/22/2022

Updated: 11/14/2024

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:woff, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:36

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/29/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/29/2022

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