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Fedora 39 : less (2024-c94f884440)

high Nessus Plugin ID 207557

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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-c94f884440 advisory.

 Security fix for CVE-2024-32487 - less with LESSOPEN mishandles \n in paths


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 less package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-c94f884440

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 207557

File Name: fedora_2024-c94f884440.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/22/2024

Updated: 9/22/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-32487

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.6

Temporal Score: 7.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/28/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/13/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-32487