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Fedora 41 : diffoscope (2024-b5bcfc7475)

high Nessus Plugin ID 211232

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 41 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-b5bcfc7475 advisory.

 Automatic update for diffoscope-257-1.fc41.

 ##### **Changelog**

 ```
 * Sun Feb 18 2024 Zbigniew Jdrzejewski-Szmek <[email protected]> - 257-1
 - Version 257
 - Fixes rhbz#2264736, CVE-2024-25711

 ```

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 diffoscope package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-b5bcfc7475

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 211232

File Name: fedora_2024-b5bcfc7475.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: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-25711

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:diffoscope, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:41

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/18/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/11/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-25711