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Fedora 40 : calibre (2024-a455bea9ca)

high Nessus Plugin ID 206238

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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-a455bea9ca advisory.

 Fix fonts for < f41 releases.

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 Upgrade to latest upstream release to fix 4 CVE's and enable new hardware

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 calibre package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-a455bea9ca

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 206238

File Name: fedora_2024-a455bea9ca.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/27/2024

Updated: 8/28/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-6781

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:40, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:calibre

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/25/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/6/2024

Exploitable With

Metasploit (Calibre Python Code Injection (CVE-2024-6782))

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-6781, CVE-2024-6782, CVE-2024-7008, CVE-2024-7009