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Fedora 40 : nginx / nginx-mod-fancyindex / nginx-mod-modsecurity / etc (2024-6ba57fd2a3)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 206203

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 40 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-6ba57fd2a3 advisory.

 Security: processing of a specially crafted mp4 file by the ngx_http_mp4_module might cause a worker process crash (CVE-2024-7347).
 Thanks to Nils Bars.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora 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://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-6ba57fd2a3

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 206203

File Name: fedora_2024-6ba57fd2a3.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/26/2024

Updated: 9/8/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.8

Temporal Score: 2.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-7347

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.7

Threat Score: 1.9

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:nginx-mod-naxsi, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:nginx-mod-modsecurity, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:nginx, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:nginx-mod-vts, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:nginx-mod-fancyindex, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:40

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/17/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/14/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-7347