Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-28176
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The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. jose is JavaScript module for JSON Object Signing and Encryption, providing support for JSON Web Tokens (JWT), JSON Web Signature (JWS), JSON Web Encryption (JWE), JSON Web Key (JWK), JSON Web Key Set (JWKS), and more. A vulnerability has been identified in the JSON Web Encryption (JWE) decryption interfaces, specifically related to the support for decompressing plaintext after its decryption. Under certain conditions it is possible to have the user's environment consume unreasonable amount of CPU time or memory during JWE Decryption operations. This issue has been patched in versions 2.0.7 and 4.15.5. (CVE-2024-28176) Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor. File data…Read More

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