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Fedora 40 : vips (2024-791f8d9804)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 194606

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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-2024-791f8d9804 advisory.

 Automatic update for vips-8.15.1-1.fc40.

 ##### **Changelog**

 ```
 * Sat Jan 20 2024 Kleis Auke Wolthuizen <[email protected]> - 8.15.1-1
 - Update to 8.15.1 Resolves: rhbz#2098477 Resolves: rhbz#2238469 (CVE-2023-40032)
 - Use libhwy in favor of liborc
 - Use libarchive in favor of libgsf

 ```

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 vips package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-791f8d9804

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 194606

File Name: fedora_2024-791f8d9804.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: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-40032

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/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:vips

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/20/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/11/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-40032