libmaxminddb before 1.4.3 has a heap-based buffer over-read in dump_entry_data_list in maxminddb.c.

The version of AHV installed on the remote host is prior to 20220304.480. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the NXSA-AHV-20230302.2024 advisory.

  - Certain DNSSEC aspects of the DNS protocol (in RFC 4033, 4034, 4035, 6840, and related RFCs) allow remote     attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via one or more DNSSEC responses, aka the     KeyTrap issue. One of the concerns is that, when there is a zone with many DNSKEY and RRSIG records, the     protocol specification implies that an algorithm must evaluate all combinations of DNSKEY and RRSIG     records. (CVE-2023-50387)

  - The Closest Encloser Proof aspect of the DNS protocol (in RFC 5155 when RFC 9276 guidance is skipped)     allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption for SHA-1 computations) via DNSSEC     responses in a random subdomain attack, aka the NSEC3 issue. The RFC 5155 specification implies that an     algorithm must perform thousands of iterations of a hash function in certain situations. (CVE-2023-50868)

  - close_altfile in filename.c in less before 606 omits shell_quote calls for LESSCLOSE. (CVE-2022-48624)

  - libexpat through 2.5.0 allows a denial of service (resource consumption) because many full reparsings are     required in the case of a large token for which multiple buffer fills are needed. (CVE-2023-52425)

  - An information disclosure vulnerability exists in curl <v8.1.0 when doing HTTP(S) transfers, libcurl might     erroneously use the read callback (`CURLOPT_READFUNCTION`) to ask for data to send, even when the     `CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS` option has been set, if the same handle previously wasused to issue a `PUT` request     which used that callback. This flaw may surprise the application and cause it to misbehave and either send     off the wrong data or use memory after free or similar in the second transfer. The problem exists in the     logic for a reused handle when it is (expected to be) changed from a PUT to a POST. (CVE-2023-28322)

  - This flaw allows an attacker to insert cookies at will into a running program using libcurl, if the     specific series of conditions are met. libcurl performs transfers. In its API, an application creates     easy handles that are the individual handles for single transfers. libcurl provides a function call that     duplicates en easy handle called     [curl_easy_duphandle](https://curl.se/libcurl/c/curl_easy_duphandle.html). If a transfer has cookies     enabled when the handle is duplicated, the cookie-enable state is also cloned - but without cloning the     actual cookies. If the source handle did not read any cookies from a specific file on disk, the cloned     version of the handle would instead store the file name as `none` (using the four ASCII letters, no     quotes). Subsequent use of the cloned handle that does not explicitly set a source to load cookies from     would then inadvertently load cookies from a file named `none` - if such a file exists and is readable in     the current directory of the program using libcurl. And if using the correct file format of course.
    (CVE-2023-38546)

  - CVE-2023-38546 is a cookie injection vulnerability in the curl_easy_duphandle(), a function in libcurl     that duplicates easy handles.  When duplicating an easy handle, if cookies are enabled, the duplicated     easy handle will not duplicate the cookies themselves, but would instead set the filename to none.'     Therefore, when the duplicated easy handle is subsequently used, if a source was not set for the cookies,     libcurl would attempt to load them from the file named none' on the disk.  This vulnerability is rated     low, as the various conditions required for exploitation are unlikely.  (CVE-2023-38546)

  - This flaw allows a malicious HTTP server to set super cookies in curl that are then passed back to more     origins than what is otherwise allowed or possible. This allows a site to set cookies that then would get     sent to different and unrelated sites and domains. It could do this by exploiting a mixed case flaw in     curl's function that verifies a given cookie domain against the Public Suffix List (PSL). For example a     cookie could be set with `domain=co.UK` when the URL used a lower case hostname `curl.co.uk`, even though     `co.uk` is listed as a PSL domain. (CVE-2023-46218)

  - libmaxminddb before 1.4.3 has a heap-based buffer over-read in dump_entry_data_list in maxminddb.c.
    (CVE-2020-28241)

  - Multiple NSS NIST curves were susceptible to a side-channel attack known as Minerva. This attack could     potentially allow an attacker to recover the private key. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 121.
    (CVE-2023-6135)

  - Use after free in tcpslice triggers AddressSanitizer, no other confirmed impact. (CVE-2021-41043)

  - The SSH transport protocol with certain OpenSSH extensions, found in OpenSSH before 9.6 and other     products, allows remote attackers to bypass integrity checks such that some packets are omitted (from the     extension negotiation message), and a client and server may consequently end up with a connection for     which some security features have been downgraded or disabled, aka a Terrapin attack. This occurs because     the SSH Binary Packet Protocol (BPP), implemented by these extensions, mishandles the handshake phase and     mishandles use of sequence numbers. For example, there is an effective attack against SSH's use of     ChaCha20-Poly1305 (and CBC with Encrypt-then-MAC). The bypass occurs in chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com and     (if CBC is used) the -etm@openssh.com MAC algorithms. This also affects Maverick Synergy Java SSH API     before 3.1.0-SNAPSHOT, Dropbear through 2022.83, Ssh before 5.1.1 in Erlang/OTP, PuTTY before 0.80,     AsyncSSH before 2.14.2, golang.org/x/crypto before 0.17.0, libssh before 0.10.6, libssh2 through 1.11.0,     Thorn Tech SFTP Gateway before 3.4.6, Tera Term before 5.1, Paramiko before 3.4.0, jsch before 0.2.15,     SFTPGo before 2.5.6, Netgate pfSense Plus through 23.09.1, Netgate pfSense CE through 2.7.2, HPN-SSH     through 18.2.0, ProFTPD before 1.3.8b (and before 1.3.9rc2), ORYX CycloneSSH before 2.3.4, NetSarang     XShell 7 before Build 0144, CrushFTP before 10.6.0, ConnectBot SSH library before 2.2.22, Apache MINA sshd     through 2.11.0, sshj through 0.37.0, TinySSH through 20230101, trilead-ssh2 6401, LANCOM LCOS and     LANconfig, FileZilla before 3.66.4, Nova before 11.8, PKIX-SSH before 14.4, SecureCRT before 9.4.3,     Transmit5 before 5.10.4, Win32-OpenSSH before 9.5.0.0p1-Beta, WinSCP before 6.2.2, Bitvise SSH Server     before 9.32, Bitvise SSH Client before 9.33, KiTTY through 0.76.1.13, the net-ssh gem 7.2.0 for Ruby, the     mscdex ssh2 module before 1.15.0 for Node.js, the thrussh library before 0.35.1 for Rust, and the Russh     crate before 0.40.2 for Rust. (CVE-2023-48795)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of AHV installed on the remote host is prior to 20220304.480. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the NXSA-AHV-20230302.100187 advisory.

  - Certain DNSSEC aspects of the DNS protocol (in RFC 4033, 4034, 4035, 6840, and related RFCs) allow remote     attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via one or more DNSSEC responses, aka the     KeyTrap issue. One of the concerns is that, when there is a zone with many DNSKEY and RRSIG records, the     protocol specification implies that an algorithm must evaluate all combinations of DNSKEY and RRSIG     records. (CVE-2023-50387)

  - The Closest Encloser Proof aspect of the DNS protocol (in RFC 5155 when RFC 9276 guidance is skipped)     allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption for SHA-1 computations) via DNSSEC     responses in a random subdomain attack, aka the NSEC3 issue. The RFC 5155 specification implies that an     algorithm must perform thousands of iterations of a hash function in certain situations. (CVE-2023-50868)

  - close_altfile in filename.c in less before 606 omits shell_quote calls for LESSCLOSE. (CVE-2022-48624)

  - libexpat through 2.5.0 allows a denial of service (resource consumption) because many full reparsings are     required in the case of a large token for which multiple buffer fills are needed. (CVE-2023-52425)

  - An information disclosure vulnerability exists in curl <v8.1.0 when doing HTTP(S) transfers, libcurl might     erroneously use the read callback (`CURLOPT_READFUNCTION`) to ask for data to send, even when the     `CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS` option has been set, if the same handle previously wasused to issue a `PUT` request     which used that callback. This flaw may surprise the application and cause it to misbehave and either send     off the wrong data or use memory after free or similar in the second transfer. The problem exists in the     logic for a reused handle when it is (expected to be) changed from a PUT to a POST. (CVE-2023-28322)

  - This flaw allows an attacker to insert cookies at will into a running program using libcurl, if the     specific series of conditions are met. libcurl performs transfers. In its API, an application creates     easy handles that are the individual handles for single transfers. libcurl provides a function call that     duplicates en easy handle called     [curl_easy_duphandle](https://curl.se/libcurl/c/curl_easy_duphandle.html). If a transfer has cookies     enabled when the handle is duplicated, the cookie-enable state is also cloned - but without cloning the     actual cookies. If the source handle did not read any cookies from a specific file on disk, the cloned     version of the handle would instead store the file name as `none` (using the four ASCII letters, no     quotes). Subsequent use of the cloned handle that does not explicitly set a source to load cookies from     would then inadvertently load cookies from a file named `none` - if such a file exists and is readable in     the current directory of the program using libcurl. And if using the correct file format of course.
    (CVE-2023-38546)

  - CVE-2023-38546 is a cookie injection vulnerability in the curl_easy_duphandle(), a function in libcurl     that duplicates easy handles.  When duplicating an easy handle, if cookies are enabled, the duplicated     easy handle will not duplicate the cookies themselves, but would instead set the filename to none.'     Therefore, when the duplicated easy handle is subsequently used, if a source was not set for the cookies,     libcurl would attempt to load them from the file named none' on the disk.  This vulnerability is rated     low, as the various conditions required for exploitation are unlikely.  (CVE-2023-38546)

  - This flaw allows a malicious HTTP server to set super cookies in curl that are then passed back to more     origins than what is otherwise allowed or possible. This allows a site to set cookies that then would get     sent to different and unrelated sites and domains. It could do this by exploiting a mixed case flaw in     curl's function that verifies a given cookie domain against the Public Suffix List (PSL). For example a     cookie could be set with `domain=co.UK` when the URL used a lower case hostname `curl.co.uk`, even though     `co.uk` is listed as a PSL domain. (CVE-2023-46218)

  - libmaxminddb before 1.4.3 has a heap-based buffer over-read in dump_entry_data_list in maxminddb.c.
    (CVE-2020-28241)

  - Multiple NSS NIST curves were susceptible to a side-channel attack known as Minerva. This attack could     potentially allow an attacker to recover the private key. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 121.
    (CVE-2023-6135)

  - Use after free in tcpslice triggers AddressSanitizer, no other confirmed impact. (CVE-2021-41043)

  - The iconv() function in the GNU C Library versions 2.39 and older may overflow the output buffer passed to     it by up to 4 bytes when converting strings to the ISO-2022-CN-EXT character set, which may be used to     crash an application or overwrite a neighbouring variable. (CVE-2024-2961)

  - A flaw was found in GnuTLS. The Minerva attack is a cryptographic vulnerability that exploits     deterministic behavior in systems like GnuTLS, leading to side-channel leaks. In specific scenarios, such     as when using the GNUTLS_PRIVKEY_FLAG_REPRODUCIBLE flag, it can result in a noticeable step in nonce size     from 513 to 512 bits, exposing a potential timing side-channel. (CVE-2024-28834)

  - A vulnerability was found in Unbound due to incorrect default permissions, allowing any process outside     the unbound group to modify the unbound runtime configuration. If a process can connect over localhost to     port 8953, it can alter the configuration of unbound.service. This flaw allows an unprivileged attacker to     manipulate a running instance, potentially altering forwarders, allowing them to track all queries     forwarded by the local resolver, and, in some cases, disrupting resolving altogether. (CVE-2024-1488)

  - The DNS message parsing code in `named` includes a section whose computational complexity is overly high.
    It does not cause problems for typical DNS traffic, but crafted queries and responses may cause excessive     CPU load on the affected `named` instance by exploiting this flaw. This issue affects both authoritative     servers and recursive resolvers. This issue affects BIND 9 versions 9.0.0 through 9.16.45, 9.18.0 through     9.18.21, 9.19.0 through 9.19.19, 9.9.3-S1 through 9.11.37-S1, 9.16.8-S1 through 9.16.45-S1, and 9.18.11-S1     through 9.18.21-S1. (CVE-2023-4408)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability that has been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - libmaxminddb: improper initialization in dump_entry_data_list() in maxminddb.c (CVE-2020-28241)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

This plugin has been deprecated as it does not adhere to established standards for this style of check.

The remote Rocky Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RLSA-2024:0768 advisory.

  - libmaxminddb before 1.4.3 has a heap-based buffer over-read in dump_entry_data_list in maxminddb.c.
    (CVE-2020-28241)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote AlmaLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALSA-2024:0768 advisory.

  - libmaxminddb before 1.4.3 has a heap-based buffer over-read in dump_entry_data_list in maxminddb.c.
    (CVE-2020-28241)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2024-0768 advisory.

    [1.2.0-10.1]
    - Resolves: RHEL-20594 - improper initialization in dump_entry_data_list() in maxminddb.c

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:0768 advisory.

    The libmaxminddb package contains the MaxMind DB library.

    Security Fix(es):

    * libmaxminddb: improper initialization in dump_entry_data_list() in maxminddb.c (CVE-2020-28241)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote CentOS Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CESA-2024:0768 advisory.

  - libmaxminddb before 1.4.3 has a heap-based buffer over-read in dump_entry_data_list in maxminddb.c.
    (CVE-2020-28241)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:0751 advisory.

    The libmaxminddb package contains the MaxMind DB library.

    Security Fix(es):

    * libmaxminddb: improper initialization in dump_entry_data_list() in maxminddb.c (CVE-2020-28241)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:0750 advisory.

    The libmaxminddb package contains the MaxMind DB library.

    Security Fix(es):

    * libmaxminddb: improper initialization in dump_entry_data_list() in maxminddb.c (CVE-2020-28241)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-5751-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that libmaxminddb incorrectly handled certain memory operations. A remote attacker could     possibly use this issue to cause applications using libmaxminddb to crash, resulting in a denial of     service.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

According to the version of the libmaxminddb package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

  - libmaxminddb before 1.4.3 has a heap-based buffer     over-read in dump_entry_data_list in     maxminddb.c.(CVE-2020-28241)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

New version 1.4.3. Security fix for CVE-2020-28241.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202011-15 (libmaxminddb: Denial of service)

    libmaxminddb used uninitialised memory when reading from a corrupt       database file.
  Impact :

    A remote attacker could entice a user to use a specially crafted       database with libmaxminddb, possibly resulting in a Denial of Service       condition.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4631-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that libmaxminddb incorrectly handled certain memory operations. A remote attacker could     possibly use this issue to cause applications using libmaxminddb to crash, resulting in a denial of     service.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

A heap-based buffer over-read has been found in libmaxminddb, an IP geolocation database library. This could be exploited when the mmdblookup tool is used to open a specially crafted database file.

For Debian 9 stretch, this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.0-1+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libmaxminddb packages.

For the detailed security status of libmaxminddb please refer to its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/libmaxminddb

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
206824	Nutanix AHV : Multiple Vulnerabilities (NXSA-AHV-20230302.101026)	Nessus	Misc.	critical
206822	Nutanix AHV : Multiple Vulnerabilities (NXSA-AHV-20230302.2024)	Nessus	Misc.	high
206821	Nutanix AHV : Multiple Vulnerabilities (NXSA-AHV-20230302.100187)	Nessus	Misc.	high
199449	RHEL 7 : libmaxminddb (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
195701	RHEL 7 : libmaxminddb (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
191912	Rocky Linux 8 : libmaxminddb (RLSA-2024:0768)	Nessus	Rocky Linux Local Security Checks	medium
190414	AlmaLinux 8 : libmaxminddb (ALSA-2024:0768)	Nessus	Alma Linux Local Security Checks	medium
190406	Oracle Linux 8 : libmaxminddb (ELSA-2024-0768)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	medium
190399	RHEL 8 : libmaxminddb (RHSA-2024:0768)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
190396	CentOS 8 : libmaxminddb (CESA-2024:0768)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	medium
190333	RHEL 8 : libmaxminddb (RHSA-2024:0751)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
190330	RHEL 8 : libmaxminddb (RHSA-2024:0750)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
183696	Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : libmaxminddb vulnerability (USN-5751-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium
145719	EulerOS 2.0 SP8 : libmaxminddb (EulerOS-SA-2021-1152)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
144617	Fedora 33 : libmaxminddb (2020-8a8f8b244f)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
144615	Fedora 32 : libmaxminddb (2020-1fb1785fa1)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
142923	GLSA-202011-15 : libmaxminddb: Denial of service	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	medium
142866	Ubuntu 20.04 LTS : libmaxminddb vulnerability (USN-4631-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium
142827	Debian DLA-2445-1 : libmaxminddb security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	medium

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