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Fedora 35 : libetpan (2022-df2f4923ea)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 169152

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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 a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2022-df2f4923ea advisory.

 A potential bug is found on libetpan that when IMAP client receives invalid STATUS response, an invalid free can occur on mailimap_mailbox_data_status_free(). This bug is now assigned as CVE-2022-4121. Although the formal fix is under discussion, this update rpm adds a quick fix for this issue.

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 libetpan package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2022-df2f4923ea

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 169152

File Name: fedora_2022-df2f4923ea.nasl

Version: 1.4

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: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-4121

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libetpan, 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-2022-4121