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Fedora 38 : ghc-base64 / ghc-hakyll / gitit / pandoc / patat (2024-6ad6b9f417)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 192725

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Fedora 38 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-6ad6b9f417 advisory.

 Security fix for CVE-2023-35936 and CVE-2023-38745

 - pandoc: backport fixes for CVE-2023-35936 and CVE-2023-38745
 - base64 now packaged in Fedora



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 packages.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-6ad6b9f417

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 192725

File Name: fedora_2024-6ad6b9f417.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/30/2024

Updated: 11/14/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.6

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-38745

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:patat, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ghc-base64, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:38, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ghc-hakyll, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:gitit, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:pandoc

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: 3/22/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/5/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-35936, CVE-2023-38745

FEDORA: 2024-6ad6b9f417

IAVB: 2024-B-0030