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Fedora 37 : libpcap / tcpdump (2023-a66bd67e34)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 174426

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 37 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-a66bd67e34 advisory.

 New versions of libpcap and tcpdump

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 14:libpcap and / or 14:tcpdump packages.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-a66bd67e34

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 174426

File Name: fedora_2023-a66bd67e34.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/18/2023

Updated: 11/14/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-1801

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libpcap, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:tcpdump, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:37

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/12/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/7/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-1801