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Fedora 39 : dcmtk (2023-29c8c2d740)

high Nessus Plugin ID 185268

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 39 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-29c8c2d740 advisory.

 Automatic update for dcmtk-3.6.7-3.fc39.

 ##### **Changelog**

 ```
 * Thu Mar 2 2023 Carl George <[email protected]> - 3.6.7-3
 - Backport fix for CVE-2022-43272, resolves rhbz#2150930

 ```

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 dcmtk package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-29c8c2d740

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 185268

File Name: fedora_2023-29c8c2d740.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/7/2023

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: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-43272

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:dcmtk, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:39

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: 3/2/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/2/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-43272