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Fedora 35 : mingw-expat (2022-c22feb71ba)

high Nessus Plugin ID 169064

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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-c22feb71ba advisory.

 Update to 2.4.9, fixes CVE-2022-30674.

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 mingw-expat package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2022-c22feb71ba

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 169064

File Name: fedora_2022-c22feb71ba.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/22/2022

Updated: 11/14/2024

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: 7.6

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-40674

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/21/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/14/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-30674, CVE-2022-40674