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Fedora 39 : iwd (2024-4ef5edfb2a)

high Nessus Plugin ID 192168

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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 multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-4ef5edfb2a advisory.

 iwd 2.16:

 Fix issue with uninitialized variable and DPP encrypt.
 Fix issue with Access Point mode and ATTR_MAC validation.
 Fix issue with Access Point mode and frequency attributes.
 Fix issue with P2P and handling client info description.
 Fix issue with P2P and handling parsing of service info.
 Fix issue with netconfig and handling domain list.
 Add support for forcing a default ECC group.

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 iwd package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-4ef5edfb2a

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 192168

File Name: fedora_2024-4ef5edfb2a.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/15/2024

Updated: 11/14/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-52161

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:H/I:N/A:N

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/7/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/22/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-52161, CVE-2024-28084