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Fedora 38 : cups (2023-96519dc6fd)

high Nessus Plugin ID 181864

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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-2023-96519dc6fd advisory.

 2239982 - cups-2.4.7 is available

 Security fix for CVE-2023-4504

 2233078 - cupsd spamming journal

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 1:cups package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-96519dc6fd

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 181864

File Name: fedora_2023-96519dc6fd.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/26/2023

Updated: 11/14/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.2

Temporal Score: 4.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-4504

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7

Temporal Score: 6.3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:38, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:cups

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: 9/21/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/20/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-4504