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Fedora 36 : w3m (2022-ce04ff8b49)

high Nessus Plugin ID 169441

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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 multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2022-ce04ff8b49 advisory.

 - Added upstream patch to address CVE-2022-38223 (#2126270)

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 w3m package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2022-ce04ff8b49

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 169441

File Name: fedora_2022-ce04ff8b49.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/1/2023

Updated: 11/15/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

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-2022-38223

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/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:w3m

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: 12/23/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/15/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-38223