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Fedora 38 : procps-ng (2023-30c3ca07eb)

low Nessus Plugin ID 179999

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 38 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-30c3ca07eb advisory.

 - Under some circumstances, this weakness allows a user who has access to run the ps utility on a machine, the ability to write almost unlimited amounts of unfiltered data into the process heap. (CVE-2023-4016)

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 procps-ng package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-30c3ca07eb

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 179999

File Name: fedora_2023-30c3ca07eb.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/21/2023

Updated: 12/25/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 1.7

Temporal Score: 1.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-4016

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.3

Temporal Score: 2.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:38, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:procps-ng

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/15/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/2/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-4016

FEDORA: 2023-30c3ca07eb

IAVA: 2023-A-0434