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Fedora 37 : libsignal-protocol-c (2023-6cfe134db6)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 174934

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 37 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-6cfe134db6 advisory.

 - protobuf-c before 1.4.1 has an unsigned integer overflow in parse_required_member. (CVE-2022-48468)

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 libsignal-protocol-c package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-6cfe134db6

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 174934

File Name: fedora_2023-6cfe134db6.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/29/2023

Updated: 4/29/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-48468

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:37, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libsignal-protocol-c

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/20/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/13/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-48468