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Fedora 31 : xar (2020-edf53cd770)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 133536

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Fedora 31 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2020-edf53cd770 advisory.

 - Use Apple upstream instead of non-fresh Github one
 - New upstream in 1.8 dev branch with 417.1 subversion
 - Close CVE-2018-17093
 - Close CVE-2018-17094
 - Close CVE-2017-11124
 - Close CVE-2017-11125
 - Close CVE-2010-3798
 - Use license macro
 - Add OpenSSL To Configuration

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 xar package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-edf53cd770

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 133536

File Name: fedora_2020-edf53cd770.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/7/2020

Updated: 9/24/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

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-2017-11125

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:xar, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:31

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/7/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/16/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-3798, CVE-2017-11124, CVE-2017-11125