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Fedora 39 : freeimage / mingw-freeimage (2023-8e640cb540)

high Nessus Plugin ID 185306

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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 multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-8e640cb540 advisory.

 Downstream fixes for CVE-2021-40266 CVE-2020-24292 CVE-2020-24293 CVE-2020-24295 CVE-2021-40263

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 freeimage and / or mingw-freeimage packages.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-8e640cb540

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 185306

File Name: fedora_2023-8e640cb540.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/7/2023

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: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-40263

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/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:39, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:mingw-freeimage, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:freeimage

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: 9/28/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/22/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-24292, CVE-2020-24293, CVE-2020-24295, CVE-2021-40263, CVE-2021-40266