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Fedora 43 : dnsx (2025-4af86bb0f8)

high Nessus Plugin ID 242047

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 43 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-4af86bb0f8 advisory.

 Automatic update for dnsx-1.2.2-1.fc43.

 ##### **Changelog**

 ```
 * Sun Jul 13 2025 Mikel Olasagasti Uranga <[email protected]> - 1.2.2-1
 - Update to 1.2.2 and adopt Go Vendor Tools - Closes rhbz#2360631 rhbz#2360591 rhbz#2359393 rhbz#2352157 rhbz#2340086 rhbz#2333247 rhbz#2267855
 * Thu Jan 16 2025 Fedora Release Engineering <[email protected]> - 1.1.6-6
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_42_Mass_Rebuild

 ```

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

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 dnsx package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-4af86bb0f8

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 242047

File Name: fedora_2025-4af86bb0f8.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/13/2025

Updated: 7/13/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.6

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-3445

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.3

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Threat Score: 7.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-45338

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:dnsx, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:43

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: 7/13/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/18/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-45338, CVE-2025-22870, CVE-2025-22872, CVE-2025-3445