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Fedora 37 : libheif (2023-440c8694e5)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 175153

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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-2023-440c8694e5 advisory.

 Fixes an incompatibility with AOM v3.6.0 and includes a couple of smaller fixes.
 Also fixes a stack overflow with some crafted images (CVE-2023-29659).



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 libheif package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-440c8694e5

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 175153

File Name: fedora_2023-440c8694e5.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/6/2023

Updated: 11/14/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-29659

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

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

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: 5/4/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/5/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-29659