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Fedora 41 : libxml2 (2024-867a14de12)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 213402

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-2024-867a14de12 advisory.

 Update to 2.12.9

 Fixes CVE-2024-40896.

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 libxml2 package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-867a14de12

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 213402

File Name: fedora_2024-867a14de12.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/26/2024

Updated: 12/26/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-40896

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:N/I:H/A:H

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libxml2, 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: 12/24/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/24/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-40896