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Fedora 40 : hostapd / wpa_supplicant (2024-73626281d8)

high Nessus Plugin ID 204984

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 40 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-73626281d8 advisory.

 Update to upstream version 2.11.

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 1:wpa_supplicant and / or hostapd packages.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-73626281d8

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 204984

File Name: fedora_2024-73626281d8.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/3/2024

Updated: 8/30/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.4

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-2023-52424

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.4

Temporal Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/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:wpa_supplicant, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:hostapd

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/31/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/17/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-52424