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Fedora 37 : vtk (2023-2cf9dd7d52)

high Nessus Plugin ID 175378

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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 a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-2cf9dd7d52 advisory.

 Add upstream patch for CVE-2021-42521 - vtkXMLTreeReader: possible nullptr dereference

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 vtk package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-2cf9dd7d52

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 175378

File Name: fedora_2023-2cf9dd7d52.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/11/2023

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-2021-42521

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/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:vtk, 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: 5/2/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/25/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-42521