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Fedora 38 : mbedtls (2023-5c6521d81d)

high Nessus Plugin ID 182996

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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-2023-5c6521d81d advisory.

 - Mbed TLS 2.x before 2.28.5 and 3.x before 3.5.0 has a Buffer Overflow. (CVE-2023-43615)

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 mbedtls package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-5c6521d81d

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 182996

File Name: fedora_2023-5c6521d81d.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/13/2023

Updated: 10/13/2023

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, 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:C/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-43615

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/10/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/7/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-43615