GLSA-202409-04 : calibre: Multiple Vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 207572

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202409-04 (calibre: Multiple Vulnerabilities)

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in calibre. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Gentoo Linux 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

All calibre users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose >=app-text/calibre-7.16.0

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202409-04

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=918429

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=936961

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 207572

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-202409-04.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Published: 9/22/2024

Updated: 9/23/2024

Supported Sensors: 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:gentoo:linux, p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:calibre

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/22/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/22/2023

Exploitable With

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

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-46303, CVE-2024-6781, CVE-2024-6782, CVE-2024-7008, CVE-2024-7009