Fedora: Security Advisory for netconsd (FEDORA-2023-6b4d3ca766)
🗓️ 05 Nov 2023 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2023 Greenbone AGType
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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.885209");
script_version("2025-04-24T05:40:01+0000");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"5.0");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-04-24 05:40:01 +0000 (Thu, 24 Apr 2025)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2023-11-05 02:21:12 +0000 (Sun, 05 Nov 2023)");
script_name("Fedora: Security Advisory for netconsd (FEDORA-2023-6b4d3ca766)");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2023 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Fedora Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/fedora", "ssh/login/rpms", re:"ssh/login/release=FC38");
script_xref(name:"Advisory-ID", value:"FEDORA-2023-6b4d3ca766");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZU56IBE2GRXAKBNYUTNGF6E3SZEDKXBD");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The remote host is missing an update for the 'netconsd'
package(s) announced via the FEDORA-2023-6b4d3ca766 advisory.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable package version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"This is a daemon for receiving and processing logs from the Linux Kernel, as
emitted over a network by the kernel', s netconsole module. It supports both the
old 'legacy' text-only format, and the new extended format added in v4.4.
The core of the daemon does nothing but process messages and drop them: in order
to make the daemon useful, the user must supply one or more 'output modules'.
These modules are shared object files which expose a small ABI that is called by
netconsd with the content and metadata for netconsole messages it receives.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"'netconsd' package(s) on Fedora 38.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Please install the updated package(s).");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
exit(0);
}
include("revisions-lib.inc");
include("pkg-lib-rpm.inc");
release = rpm_get_ssh_release();
if(!release)
exit(0);
res = "";
report = "";
if(release == "FC38") {
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"netconsd", rpm:"netconsd~0.4~1.fc38", rls:"FC38"))) {
report += res;
}
if(report != "") {
security_message(data:report);
} else if(__pkg_match) {
exit(99);
}
exit(0);
}
exit(0);
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