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Fedora 36 : libtasn1 (2022-3f9ee1ad91)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 169067

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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-2022-3f9ee1ad91 advisory.

 CVE-2021-46848 libtasn1: Out-of-bound access in ETYPE_OK

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 libtasn1 package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2022-3f9ee1ad91

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 169067

File Name: fedora_2022-3f9ee1ad91.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: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.4

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-46848

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 8.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:36, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libtasn1

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: 12/2/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/24/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-46848