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AlmaLinux 9 : cups (ALSA-2024:4776)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 204725

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Synopsis

The remote AlmaLinux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote AlmaLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALSA-2024:4776 advisory.

 * cups: Cupsd Listen arbitrary chmod 0140777 (CVE-2024-35235)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the AlmaLinux security advisory.

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 packages.

See Also

https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2024-4776.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 204725

File Name: alma_linux_ALSA-2024-4776.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Published: 7/25/2024

Updated: 9/29/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-35235

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.7

Temporal Score: 6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:cups-ipptool, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::supplementary, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:cups, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::sap, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::baseos, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::highavailability, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:cups-printerapp, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::resilientstorage, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::appstream, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::sap_hana, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:cups-filesystem, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:cups-client, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::realtime, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:cups-libs, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::nfv, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::crb, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:cups-lpd, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:cups-devel

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/23/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/11/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-35235

CWE: 277