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Fedora 38 : perl-CryptX (2023-b4b9b38f23)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 186891

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 38 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-b4b9b38f23 advisory.

 Update to 0.080 Fix CVE-2019-17362 in bundled libtomcrypt

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 perl-CryptX package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-b4b9b38f23

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 186891

File Name: fedora_2023-b4b9b38f23.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/14/2023

Updated: 11/14/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-17362

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 8.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl-cryptx, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:38

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: 12/5/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/9/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-17362