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Fedora 42 : p11-kit (2026-7982f70f74)

high Nessus Plugin ID 299148

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 42 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-7982f70f74 advisory.

 Notable changes from the rebase:
 * pkcs11: Update PKCS11 headers to version 3.2
 * rpc: fix NULL dereference via C_DeriveKey with specific NULL parameters (CVE-2026-2100)
 * trust: Lookup DNs in reverse order (RFC4514 section 2.1)

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 p11-kit package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-7982f70f74

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 299148

File Name: fedora_2026-7982f70f74.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/16/2026

Updated: 2/16/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-2100

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/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:p11-kit, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:42

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/10/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/10/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-2100