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Fedora 40 : python-cryptography / rust-asn1 / rust-asn1_derive (2023-11f1c85512)

high Nessus Plugin ID 194625

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 40 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-11f1c85512 advisory.

 - Update python-cryptography to 41.0.3, https://cryptography.io/en/latest/changelog/
 - Security fix for CVE-2023-3832 SSH certificate encoding/parsing incompatibility with OpenSSH
 - Update rust-asn1 to 0.15.5 and obsolete const-generic feature
 - Update rust-asn1_derive to 0.15.5



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 python-cryptography, rust-asn1 and / or rust-asn1_derive packages.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-11f1c85512

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 194625

File Name: fedora_2023-11f1c85512.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: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-38325

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:rust-asn1, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:40, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:rust-asn1_derive, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:python-cryptography

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: 8/10/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/14/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-3832, CVE-2023-38325