Fedora 36 : pypy3.7 (2023-930077c742)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 172668

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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 a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-930077c742 advisory.

 - The Keccak XKCP SHA-3 reference implementation before fdc6fef has an integer overflow and resultant buffer overflow that allows attackers to execute arbitrary code or eliminate expected cryptographic properties.
 This occurs in the sponge function interface. (CVE-2022-37454)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected pypy3.7 package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-930077c742

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 172668

File Name: fedora_2023-930077c742.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/18/2023

Updated: 3/18/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-37454

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: cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:36:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, p-cpe:2.3:a:fedoraproject:fedora:pypy3.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/8/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/21/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-37454