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Fedora 42 : gnupg2 (2026-59fdfa64f5)

high Nessus Plugin ID 299424

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 a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-59fdfa64f5 advisory.

 Fix CVE-2026-24882: Stack-based buffer overflow in tpm2daemon allows arbitrary code execution

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 gnupg2 package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-59fdfa64f5

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 299424

File Name: fedora_2026-59fdfa64f5.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/18/2026

Updated: 2/18/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-24882

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:gnupg2, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:42

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: 2/3/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/27/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-24882

FEDORA: 2026-59fdfa64f5

IAVA: 2026-A-0085