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Fedora 38 : liferea (2023-5a91738e22)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 173276

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 38 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-5a91738e22 advisory.

 - A vulnerability was found in liferea. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is the function update_job_run of the file src/update.c of the component Feed Enrichment. The manipulation of the argument source with the input |date >/tmp/bad-item-link.txt leads to os command injection. The attack may be launched remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The name of the patch is 8d8b5b963fa64c7a2122d1bbfbb0bed46e813e59. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.
 The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-222848. (CVE-2023-1350)

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 1:liferea package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-5a91738e22

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 173276

File Name: fedora_2023-5a91738e22.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/22/2023

Updated: 3/22/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-1350

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/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:liferea, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:38

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/14/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/11/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-1350