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Fedora 39 : systemd (2024-b8312ca5b3)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 189385

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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 a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-b8312ca5b3 advisory.

 - A bunch of fixes for various components: systemd, systemctl, systemd-firstboot, systemd-repart, bootctl, systemd-networkd, systemd-network-generator, systemd-analyze, systemd-dissect, ukify, man pages.
 - Also has a patch for CVE-2023-7008 (rhbz#2222260)
 - Add missing %postun scriptlets for systemd-{resolved,networkd} so that they are restarted on package updates.

 No need to log out or reboot.


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 systemd package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-b8312ca5b3

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 189385

File Name: fedora_2024-b8312ca5b3.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/23/2024

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: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-7008

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/22/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/23/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-7008