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Fedora 41 : man2html (2025-538f2e492d)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 232331

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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-2025-538f2e492d advisory.

 * Refresh patches

 * Add -std=gnu17 to CFLAGS to fix the build

 * 042-man2html-CVE-2021-40647.patch

 * Add more patches from Debian

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 man2html package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-538f2e492d

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 232331

File Name: fedora_2025-538f2e492d.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/10/2025

Updated: 3/10/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-40647

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:man2html, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:41

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: 2/26/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/9/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-40647