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Fedora 40 : xmedcon (2024-f02d23b92b)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 204603

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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-f02d23b92b advisory.

 - update xmedcon to 0.24.0
 - fixes:
 Bug 2283157 - xmedcon-0.24.0 is available Bug 2283100 - CVE-2024-29421 xmedcon: Heap overview when parsing DICOM medical files [fedora-all] Bug 2283099 (CVE-2024-29421) - CVE-2024-29421 xmedcon: Heap overview when parsing DICOM medical files


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 xmedcon package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-f02d23b92b

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 204603

File Name: fedora_2024-f02d23b92b.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/24/2024

Updated: 7/24/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-29421

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: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:40, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:xmedcon

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/15/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/22/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-29421