Fedora 39 : openvpn (2023-d9d55a0bfc)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 186203

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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 multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-d9d55a0bfc advisory.

This is an extended update of the OpenVPN 2.6.7 release which contains security fixes for CVE-2023-46849 and CVE-2023-46850. That release had a regression causing the `openvpn` daemon to segfault frequently;
which is why the 2.6.7 release was pulled. This 2.6.8 release contains a fix for the regression issue as well.

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 openvpn package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 186203

File Name: fedora_2023-d9d55a0bfc.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 11/22/2023

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: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-46850

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/20/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/11/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-46849, CVE-2023-46850

FEDORA: 2023-d9d55a0bfc

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