Fedora 41 : libxml2 (2025-65790c11eb)

high Nessus Plugin ID 232829

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 multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-65790c11eb advisory.

Update to 2.12.10

Fix CVE-2024-56171 and CVE-2025-24928.

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 libxml2 package.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 232829

File Name: fedora_2025-65790c11eb.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 3/16/2025

Updated: 3/16/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.2

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-56171

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-24928

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: 3/13/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/11/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-56171, CVE-2025-24928

FEDORA: 2025-65790c11eb

IAVA: 2025-A-0123

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