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Fedora 43 : c-ares (2026-d70d93fcd7)

high Nessus Plugin ID 328437

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 a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-d70d93fcd7 advisory.

 1.34.7 accidentally broke the API compatibility, this is fixed in 1.34.8.

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 - update to 1.34.7
 - fixes CVE-2026-33630 (GHSA-6wfj-rwm7-3542) and GHSA-pjmc-gx33-gc76 and GHSA-jv8r-gqr9-68wj

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 c-ares package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-d70d93fcd7

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 328437

File Name: fedora_2026-d70d93fcd7.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/20/2026

Updated: 7/20/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.76

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-33630

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: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:43, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:c-ares

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/10/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/10/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-33630