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Fedora 39 : firecracker / virtiofsd (2023-8e6ae98f81)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 185205

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 39 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-8e6ae98f81 advisory.

 Rebuild dependent packages for vm-memory v0.12.2 to address CVE-2023-41051 / RUSTSEC-2023-0056.

 - https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-41051
 - https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2023-0056.html

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 virtiofsd packages.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-8e6ae98f81

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 185205

File Name: fedora_2023-8e6ae98f81.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/7/2023

Updated: 11/15/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-41051

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:firecracker, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:39, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:virtiofsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/19/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/1/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-41051