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Fedora 39 : emacs (2024-3fedeba41f)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 201222

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 39 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-3fedeba41f advisory.

 Update to version 29.4, fixing CVE-2024-39331.

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 Update to Emacs 29.4, fixing CVE-2024-39331.

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 1:emacs package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-3fedeba41f

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 201222

File Name: fedora_2024-3fedeba41f.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/2/2024

Updated: 7/2/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-39331

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:emacs, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:39

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/25/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/23/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-39331

FEDORA: 2024-3fedeba41f

IAVA: 2024-A-0368