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Fedora 37 : yajl (2023-852b377773)

high Nessus Plugin ID 178918

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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-2023-852b377773 advisory.

 Security fix for memory leak(s) leading to denial of service (CVE-2023-33460).
 Security fix for integer overflow leading to heap corruption (CVE-2022-24795)

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 yajl package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-852b377773

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 178918

File Name: fedora_2023-852b377773.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/27/2023

Updated: 11/14/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-24795

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:yajl, 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: 7/11/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/5/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-24795, CVE-2023-33460