An issue was discovered in libbzip3.a in bzip3 1.2.2. There is a bz3_decompress out-of-bounds read in certain situations where buffers passed to bzip3 do not contain enough space to be filled with decompressed data. NOTE: the vendor's perspective is that the observed behavior can only occur for a contract violation, and thus the report is invalid.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - An issue was discovered in libbzip3.a in bzip3 1.2.2. There is a bz3_decompress out-of-bounds read in     certain situations where buffers passed to bzip3 do not contain enough space to be filled with     decompressed data. NOTE: the vendor's perspective is that the observed behavior can only occur for a     contract violation, and thus the report is invalid. (CVE-2023-29417)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The remote Fedora 38 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-3589ad1c55 advisory.

    This release fixes a memory heap corruption.

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.

The remote Fedora 37 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-c08f9dfc16 advisory.

    This release fixes a memory heap corruption.

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.

The remote Fedora 36 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-3a821e6e73 advisory.

    This release fixes a memory heap corruption.

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.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
259107	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-29417	Nessus	Misc.	medium
174354	Fedora 38 : bzip3 (2023-3589ad1c55)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
174284	Fedora 37 : bzip3 (2023-c08f9dfc16)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
174279	Fedora 36 : bzip3 (2023-3a821e6e73)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high

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