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Fedora 36 : snakeyaml (2022-8a4e8aa190)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 169224

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 36 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2022-8a4e8aa190 advisory.

 - Those using Snakeyaml to parse untrusted YAML files may be vulnerable to Denial of Service attacks (DOS).
 If the parser is running on user supplied input, an attacker may supply content that causes the parser to crash by stack overflow. This effect may support a denial of service attack. (CVE-2022-41854)

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 snakeyaml package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2022-8a4e8aa190

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 169224

File Name: fedora_2022-8a4e8aa190.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/23/2022

Updated: 9/12/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-41854

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/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: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:36, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:snakeyaml

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: 12/12/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/11/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-41854