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Fedora 29 : edk2 (2019-bff1cbaba3)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 258105

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 29 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2019-bff1cbaba3 advisory.

 * Use YYYYMMDD versioning to fix upgrade path

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 * Update to stable-201903
 * Update to openssl-1.1.0j
 * Move to python3 deps




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 edk2 package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-bff1cbaba3

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 258105

File Name: fedora_2019-bff1cbaba3.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/29/2025

Updated: 8/29/2025

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-12180

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-12178

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:edk2, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:29

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/18/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/20/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-5731, CVE-2018-12178, CVE-2018-12180, CVE-2018-12181, CVE-2018-3613