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Fedora 40 : libreswan (2024-92f0c71a01)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 194612

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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-2024-92f0c71a01 advisory.

 Update to 4.14 for CVE-2024-2357, v6 SAN name and TFC padding fix for AEAD

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 libreswan package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-92f0c71a01

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 194612

File Name: fedora_2024-92f0c71a01.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/29/2024

Updated: 11/25/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

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-2024-2357

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/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:libreswan

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/12/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/11/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-2357

FEDORA: 2024-92f0c71a01

IAVA: 2024-A-0255