Fedora 40 : tinyxml (2024-763ac380b6)

high Nessus Plugin ID 194679

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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 multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-763ac380b6 advisory.

Automatic update for tinyxml-2.6.2-28.fc40.

##### **Changelog**

```
* Wed Jan 3 2024 Dominik Mierzejewski <[email protected]> - 2.6.2-28
- apply Debian patch to fix CVE-2021-42260 (rhbz#2253716, rhbz#2253718)
- apply Debian patch to fix CVE-2023-34194 and its duplicate, CVE-2023-40462 (rhbz#2254376, rhbz#2254381)
- fix incorrect text element encoding (upstream isssue #51)
- compile and run tests

```

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 tinyxml package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-763ac380b6

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 194679

File Name: fedora_2024-763ac380b6.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: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-42260

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:N/A:H

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-40462

Vulnerability Information

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

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: 1/3/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/11/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-42260, CVE-2023-34194, CVE-2023-40462