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Fedora 41 : ghc-base64 / ghc-hakyll / ghc-isocline / gitit / pandoc / etc (2024-d62088b505)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 211026

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Fedora 41 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-d62088b505 advisory.

 pandoc-cli replaces pandoc binary package

 Security fix for CVE-2023-35936 and CVE-2023-35936

 newly packaged ghc-base64 and ghc-isocline



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 packages.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-d62088b505

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 211026

File Name: fedora_2024-d62088b505.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/14/2024

Updated: 11/14/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.6

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-38745

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:patat, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ghc-base64, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ghc-isocline, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:gitit, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ghc-hakyll, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:pandoc, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:41, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:pandoc-cli

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: 2/28/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/5/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-35936, CVE-2023-38745

FEDORA: 2024-d62088b505

IAVB: 2024-B-0030