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Fedora 36 : libpcap / tcpdump (2023-de10e674ae)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 174910

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 36 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-de10e674ae advisory.

 - The SMB protocol decoder in tcpdump version 4.99.3 can perform an out-of-bounds write when decoding a crafted network packet. (CVE-2023-1801)

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 14:libpcap and / or 14:tcpdump packages.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-de10e674ae

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 174910

File Name: fedora_2023-de10e674ae.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/28/2023

Updated: 4/28/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-1801

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:36, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libpcap, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:tcpdump

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/12/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/7/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-1801