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Fedora 39 : freeglut (2024-b69a4d75a1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 190724

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 39 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-b69a4d75a1 advisory.

 - freeglut 3.4.0 was discovered to contain a memory leak via the menuEntry variable in the glutAddSubMenu function. (CVE-2024-24258)

 - freeglut through 3.4.0 was discovered to contain a memory leak via the menuEntry variable in the glutAddMenuEntry function. (CVE-2024-24259)

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 freeglut package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-b69a4d75a1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 190724

File Name: fedora_2024-b69a4d75a1.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/19/2024

Updated: 2/19/2024

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-2024-24259

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/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:39, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:freeglut

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: 2/12/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/5/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-24258, CVE-2024-24259