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GLSA-202406-01 : GLib: Privilege Escalation

low Nessus Plugin ID 200861

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Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202406-01 (GLib: Privilege Escalation)

 A vulnerability has been discovered in GLib. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Gentoo Linux 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

All GLib users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose >=dev-libs/glib-2.78.6

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202406-01

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=931507

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 200861

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-202406-01.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 6/22/2024

Updated: 6/22/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 1.7

Temporal Score: 1.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-34397

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.8

Temporal Score: 3.3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:gentoo:linux, p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:glib

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/22/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/7/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-34397