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Fedora 38 : perl / perl-Devel-Cover / perl-PAR-Packer / polymake (2023-9ef8a60a05)

high Nessus Plugin ID 187039

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 38 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-9ef8a60a05 advisory.

 Security fix for CVE-2023-47038



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 packages.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-9ef8a60a05

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 187039

File Name: fedora_2023-9ef8a60a05.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/16/2023

Updated: 11/14/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-47038

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl-par-packer, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl-devel-cover, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:38, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:polymake

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/30/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/30/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-47038