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Fedora 38 : firecracker / rust-aes-gcm (2023-98f44d1c4c)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 182427

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 38 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-98f44d1c4c advisory.

 - Update the aes-gcm crate to version 0.10.3. Addresses CVE-2023-42811.
 - Rebuild dependent packages (firecracker) for aes-gcm v0.10.3.

 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-42811

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 firecracker and / or rust-aes-gcm packages.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-98f44d1c4c

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 182427

File Name: fedora_2023-98f44d1c4c.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/3/2023

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: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-42811

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:firecracker, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:38, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:rust-aes-gcm

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: 10/1/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/21/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-42811