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Fedora 41 : glibc (2024-846e191001)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 213240

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-2024-846e191001 advisory.

 This update addresses a [security vulnerability in the `getrandom` and `arc4random` implementation](https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32440) (CVE-2024-12455) on POWER systems (pcpc64le). Other architectures are not affected.




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 glibc package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-846e191001

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 213240

File Name: fedora_2024-846e191001.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/19/2024

Updated: 12/19/2024

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

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-12455

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:glibc, 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: 12/12/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/12/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-12455