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Fedora 40 : varnish (2023-2cc6f607b9)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 194610

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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-2023-2cc6f607b9 advisory.

 Automatic update for varnish-7.4.2-1.fc40.

 ##### **Changelog**

 ```
 * Wed Nov 8 2023 Ingvar Hagelund <[email protected]> - 7.4.2-1
 - New upstream release. A security release
 - Includes fix for CVE-2023-44487 aka VSV00013, rhbz#2243328, HTTP/2 Rapid Reset Attack
 * Thu Oct 12 2023 Ingvar Hagelund <[email protected]> - 7.4.1-1
 - New upstream release. A bugfix release
 * Wed Oct 11 2023 Ingvar Hagelund <[email protected]> - 7.4.0-0
 - New upstream release
 * Thu Sep 14 2023 Lubo Uhliarik <[email protected]> - 7.3.0-5
 - SPDX migration

 ```

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 varnish package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-2cc6f607b9

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 194610

File Name: fedora_2023-2cc6f607b9.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/29/2024

Updated: 11/15/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-44487

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 7

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:F/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.3

Threat Score: 9.3

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:A

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

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

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: 11/14/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/10/2023

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 10/31/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-44487