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Fedora 40 : openexr (2024-55247f3a4f)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 194689

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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-2024-55247f3a4f advisory.

 Automatic update for openexr-3.1.10-5.fc40.

 ##### **Changelog**

 ```
 * Mon Feb 5 2024 Benjamin A. Beasley <[email protected]> - 3.1.10-5
 - Backport proposed fix for CVE-2023-5841 to 3.1.10 (fix RHBZ#2262406)
 * Thu Jan 25 2024 Fedora Release Engineering <[email protected]> - 3.1.10-4
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_40_Mass_Rebuild
 * Sun Jan 21 2024 Fedora Release Engineering <[email protected]> - 3.1.10-3
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_40_Mass_Rebuild

 ```

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 openexr package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-55247f3a4f

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 194689

File Name: fedora_2024-55247f3a4f.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/29/2024

Updated: 11/14/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.4

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-5841

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 8.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:openexr, 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: 2/6/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/1/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-5841