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Fedora 38 : libgit2 (2024-a7a3c8ccdd)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 190641

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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-a7a3c8ccdd advisory.

 Update to 1.6.5

 Resolves: CVE-2024-24577 Resolves: CVE-2024-24575

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 libgit2 package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-a7a3c8ccdd

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 190641

File Name: fedora_2024-a7a3c8ccdd.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/17/2024

Updated: 11/14/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-24577

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/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:libgit2, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:38

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/8/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/6/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-24575, CVE-2024-24577