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Fedora 38 : libsignal-protocol-c (2023-4e094d5297)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 174936

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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-2023-4e094d5297 advisory.

 Backport a fix for [CVE-2022-48468](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-48468) for [protobuf-c](https://github.com/protobuf-c/protobuf-c), which is bundled in `libsignal-protocol-c`.

 https://github.com/protobuf-c/protobuf-c/commit/ec3d900001a13ccdaa8aef996b34c61159c76217 https://github.com/protobuf-c/protobuf-c/issues/499 https://github.com/protobuf-c/protobuf-c/pull/513 https://github.com/protobuf-c/protobuf-c/releases/tag/v1.4.1

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 libsignal-protocol-c package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-4e094d5297

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 174936

File Name: fedora_2023-4e094d5297.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/29/2023

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: 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:38, 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