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Fedora 38 : python-nikola (2024-1eb20f8ec3)

high Nessus Plugin ID 190395

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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-2024-1eb20f8ec3 advisory.

 Update to the latest stable version:

 Features
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 * Implement a new plugin manager from scratch to replace Yapsy, which does not work on Python 3.12 due to Python 3.12 carelessly removing parts of the standard library (Issue #3719)
 * Support for Discourse as comment system (Issue #3689)

 Bugfixes
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 * Fix loading of templates from plugins with ``__init__.py`` files (Issue #3725)
 * Fix margins of paragraphs at the end of sections (Issue #3704)
 * Ignore ``.DS_Store`` files in listing indexes (Issue #3698)
 * Fix baguetteBox.js invoking in the base theme (Issue #3687)
 * Fix development (preview) server ``nikola auto`` for non-root SITE_URL, in particular when URL_TYPE is full_path.
 (Issue #3715)

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 python-nikola package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-1eb20f8ec3

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 190395

File Name: fedora_2024-1eb20f8ec3.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/11/2024

Updated: 11/14/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-22467

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:38, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:python-nikola

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/2/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/4/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-22467