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Fedora 39 : upx (2024-fb0dbe3373)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 192958

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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-fb0dbe3373 advisory.

 - A vulnerability was found in UPX up to 4.2.2. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects the function get_ne64 of the file bele.h. The manipulation leads to heap-based buffer overflow. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The associated identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-259055. NOTE: The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.
 (CVE-2024-3209)

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 upx package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-fb0dbe3373

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 192958

File Name: fedora_2024-fb0dbe3373.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/5/2024

Updated: 4/5/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-3209

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/28/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/28/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-3209