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Fedora 43 : parted (2026-b56266ea73)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 351271

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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 multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-b56266ea73 advisory.

 - parted: Fix partition number allocation in do_print (bcl)
 - fdasd: Make sure data set name is positive (bcl)
 - resize: Make sure hfsc_new_cachetable cannot overflow on 32bit (bcl)
 - resize: Make sure 32bit build cannot overflow frag_count (bcl)
 - libparted: Catch FAT metadata triggered errors (bcl) Resolves: CVE-2026-89085 Resolves: CVE-2026-89088


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 parted package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-b56266ea73

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 351271

File Name: fedora_2026-b56266ea73.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/30/2026

Updated: 10/19/2026

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: 3.9

Percentile: 52.46

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-89085

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.6

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/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:parted

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/14/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/14/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-89085, CVE-2026-89088