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Fedora 40 : mingw-expat (2024-afb73e6f62)

high Nessus Plugin ID 194557

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 40 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-afb73e6f62 advisory.

 Update to 2.6.1, backport fix for CVE-2024-28757.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

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 mingw-expat package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-afb73e6f62

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 194557

File Name: fedora_2024-afb73e6f62.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/29/2024

Updated: 11/15/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-28757

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:N/I:N/A:H

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:40, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:mingw-expat

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/10/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/10/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-28757