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Fedora 41 : fetchmail (2025-fa8d0fb866)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 270730

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 41 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-fa8d0fb866 advisory.

 Update to fetchmail-6.5.6 (CVE-2025-61962)

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 fetchmail package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-fa8d0fb866

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 270730

File Name: fedora_2025-fa8d0fb866.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/18/2025

Updated: 10/18/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-61962

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:fetchmail, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:41

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/9/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/3/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-61962