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Fedora 39 : vim (2024-5e87ad4678)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 205285

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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 multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-5e87ad4678 advisory.

 The newest upstream commit

 Security fixes for CVE-2024-41957, CVE-2024-41965

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 2:vim package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-5e87ad4678

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 205285

File Name: fedora_2024-5e87ad4678.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/9/2024

Updated: 8/23/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-41957

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/5/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/1/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-41957, CVE-2024-41965

FEDORA: 2024-5e87ad4678

IAVA: 2024-A-0461-S