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Fedora 38 : putty (2024-08a4a5ead8)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 193903

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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-2024-08a4a5ead8 advisory.

 Security fix for CVE-2024-31497.

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 putty package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-08a4a5ead8

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 193903

File Name: fedora_2024-08a4a5ead8.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/25/2024

Updated: 11/14/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-31497

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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: 4/17/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/15/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-31497

FEDORA: 2024-08a4a5ead8

IAVA: 2024-A-0243