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Fedora 39 : grub2 (2024-d09797f550)

high Nessus Plugin ID 194434

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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-d09797f550 advisory.

 Security fix for CVE-2023-4692

 Security fix for CVE-2023-4693

 Fri Apr 12 2024 Nicolas Frayer <[email protected]> - 2.06-120

 - fs/xfs: Handle non-continuous data blocks in directory extents
 - Related: #2254370

 Fri Mar 08 2024 Nicolas Frayer <[email protected]> - 2.06-119

 - GRUB2 NTFS driver vulnerabilities
 - (CVE-2023-4692)
 - (CVE-2023-4693)
 - Resolves: #2236613
 - Resolves: #2241978
 - Resolves: #2241976
 - Resolves: #2238343


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 1:grub2 package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-d09797f550

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 194434

File Name: fedora_2024-d09797f550.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/29/2024

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: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-4692

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:39, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:grub2

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: 10/25/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-4692, CVE-2023-4693