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Fedora 40 : dotnet9.0 (2024-70cf80279f)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 211502

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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-2024-70cf80279f advisory.

 This is the .NET 9.0 GA release.

 It contains security fixes for CVE-2024-43498 and CVE-2024-43499

 Announcement: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-dotnet-9/

 Release Notes: https://github.com/dotnet/core/blob/main/release-notes/9.0/9.0.0/9.0.0.md

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 dotnet9.0 package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-70cf80279f

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 211502

File Name: fedora_2024-70cf80279f.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/18/2024

Updated: 11/18/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

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-2024-43498

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:40, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:dotnet9.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/15/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/12/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-43498, CVE-2024-43499