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Fedora 36 : git (2023-003e7d2867)

high Nessus Plugin ID 175405

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 36 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-003e7d2867 advisory.

 update to 2.40.1 (CVE-2023-25652, CVE-2023-25815, CVE-2023-29007)

 Refer to the release notes for 2.30.9 for details of each CVE as well as the following security advisories from the git project:

 https://github.com/git/git/security/advisories/GHSA-2hvf-7c8p-28fx (CVE-2023-25652) https://github.com/git/git/security/advisories/GHSA-v48j-4xgg-4844 (CVE-2023-29007)

 (At this time there is no upstream advisory for CVE-2023-25815. This issue does not affect the Fedora packages as we do not use the runtime prefix support.)

 Release notes:
 https://github.com/git/git/raw/v2.30.9/Documentation/RelNotes/2.30.9.txt https://github.com/git/git/raw/v2.40.1/Documentation/RelNotes/2.40.1.txt

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 git package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-003e7d2867

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 175405

File Name: fedora_2023-003e7d2867.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/12/2023

Updated: 11/14/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-25652

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-29007

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:36, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:git

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: 4/26/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/25/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-25652, CVE-2023-25815, CVE-2023-29007