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Fedora 38 : tinyxml (2024-c9dc0ac419)

high Nessus Plugin ID 187965

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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 multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-c9dc0ac419 advisory.

 Bugfix release. Includes security fixes for CVE-2021-42260 and CVE-2023-34194 and a fix for incorrect text element encoding (upstream isssue #51).



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 tinyxml package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-c9dc0ac419

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 187965

File Name: fedora_2024-c9dc0ac419.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/11/2024

Updated: 11/14/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-42260

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-34194

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:tinyxml, 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: 1/3/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/11/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-42260, CVE-2023-34194