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Fedora 40 : dotnet8.0 (2024-f4eb809b49)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 206237

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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 a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-f4eb809b49 advisory.

 This is the August 2024 monthly update for .NET 8. This includes a fix for CVE-2024-38167

 Release Notes:

 - SDK: https://github.com/dotnet/core/blob/main/release-notes/8.0/8.0.8/8.0.108.md
 - Runtime: https://github.com/dotnet/core/blob/main/release-notes/8.0/8.0.8/8.0.8.md

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 dotnet8.0 package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-f4eb809b49

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 206237

File Name: fedora_2024-f4eb809b49.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/27/2024

Updated: 8/27/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-38167

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:40, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:dotnet8.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/18/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/13/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-38167