An issue was discovered in libbzip3.a in bzip3 before 1.2.3. There is a crash caused by an invalid memmove in bz3_decode_block.

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 before 1.2.3. There is a crash caused by an invalid memmove     in bz3_decode_block. (CVE-2023-29420)

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
251168	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-29420	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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