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Fedora 40 : firecracker / virtiofsd (2023-eb87748e07)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 194631

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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 a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-eb87748e07 advisory.

 Rebuild dependent packages for vm-memory v0.12.2 to address CVE-2023-41051 / RUSTSEC-2023-0056.

 - https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-41051
 - https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2023-0056.html

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 firecracker and / or virtiofsd packages.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-eb87748e07

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 194631

File Name: fedora_2023-eb87748e07.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: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-41051

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

Temporal Score: 4.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/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:firecracker, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:virtiofsd

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/19/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/1/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-41051