When reading a specially crafted TAR archive an Apache Ant build can be made to allocate large amounts of memory that finally leads to an out of memory error, even for small inputs. This can be used to disrupt builds using Apache Ant. Apache Ant prior to 1.9.16 and 1.10.11 were affected.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 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.

  - ant: excessive memory allocation when reading a specially crafted TAR archive (CVE-2021-36373)

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 version of Oracle Business Process Management Suite installed on the remote host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities, as referenced in the July 2023 CPU advisory, including:

  - Vulnerability in the Oracle Business Process Management Suite product of Oracle Fusion Middleware     (component: Runtime Engine (Apache Xerces2 Java)). The supported version that is affected is     12.2.1.4.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via     HTTP to compromise Oracle Business Process Management Suite. Successful attacks require human interaction     from a person other than the attacker. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in     unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of Oracle Business     Process Management Suite. (CVE-2022-23437)

  - Vulnerability in the Oracle Business Process Management Suite product of Oracle Fusion Middleware     (component: BPM Studio (jQueryUI)). The supported version that is affected is 12.2.1.4.0. Easily     exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise     Oracle Business Process Management Suite. Successful attacks require human interaction from a person     other than the attacker and while the vulnerability is in Oracle Business Process Management Suite,     attacks may significantly impact additional products (scope change). Successful attacks of this     vulnerability can result in unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some of Oracle Business     Process Management Suite accessible data as well as unauthorized read access to a subset of Oracle     Business Process Management Suite accessible data. (CVE-2021-41184)

  - Vulnerability in the Oracle Business Process Management Suite product of Oracle Fusion Middleware     (component: Installer (Apache Ant)). The supported version that is affected is 12.2.1.4.0. Easily     exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle     Business Process Management Suite executes to compromise Oracle Business Process Management Suite.
    Successful attacks require human interaction from a person other than the attacker. Successful attacks of     this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash     (complete DOS) of Oracle Business Process Management Suite. (CVE-2021-36374)

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 versions of the ant package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - When reading a specially crafted TAR archive an Apache Ant build can be made to allocate large amounts of     memory that finally leads to an out of memory error, even for small inputs. This can be used to disrupt     builds using Apache Ant. Apache Ant prior to 1.9.16 and 1.10.11 were affected. (CVE-2021-36373)

  - When reading a specially crafted ZIP archive, or a derived formats, an Apache Ant build can be made to     allocate large amounts of memory that leads to an out of memory error, even for small inputs. This can be     used to disrupt builds using Apache Ant. Commonly used derived formats from ZIP archives are for instance     JAR files and many office files. Apache Ant prior to 1.9.16 and 1.10.11 were affected. (CVE-2021-36374)

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.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:1418-1 advisory.

  - When reading a specially crafted TAR archive an Apache Ant build can be made to allocate large amounts of     memory that finally leads to an out of memory error, even for small inputs. This can be used to disrupt     builds using Apache Ant. Apache Ant prior to 1.9.16 and 1.10.11 were affected. (CVE-2021-36373)

  - When reading a specially crafted ZIP archive, or a derived formats, an Apache Ant build can be made to     allocate large amounts of memory that leads to an out of memory error, even for small inputs. This can be     used to disrupt builds using Apache Ant. Commonly used derived formats from ZIP archives are for instance     JAR files and many office files. Apache Ant prior to 1.9.16 and 1.10.11 were affected. (CVE-2021-36374)

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

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:1417-1 advisory.

  - When reading a specially crafted TAR archive an Apache Ant build can be made to allocate large amounts of     memory that finally leads to an out of memory error, even for small inputs. This can be used to disrupt     builds using Apache Ant. Apache Ant prior to 1.9.16 and 1.10.11 were affected. (CVE-2021-36373)

  - When reading a specially crafted ZIP archive, or a derived formats, an Apache Ant build can be made to     allocate large amounts of memory that leads to an out of memory error, even for small inputs. This can be     used to disrupt builds using Apache Ant. Commonly used derived formats from ZIP archives are for instance     JAR files and many office files. Apache Ant prior to 1.9.16 and 1.10.11 were affected. (CVE-2021-36374)

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

According to the versions of the ant packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - When reading a specially crafted TAR archive an Apache Ant build can be made to allocate large amounts of     memory that finally leads to an out of memory error, even for small inputs. This can be used to disrupt     builds using Apache Ant. Apache Ant prior to 1.9.16 and 1.10.11 were affected. (CVE-2021-36373)

  - When reading a specially crafted ZIP archive, or a derived formats, an Apache Ant build can be made to     allocate large amounts of memory that leads to an out of memory error, even for small inputs. This can be     used to disrupt builds using Apache Ant. Commonly used derived formats from ZIP archives are for instance     JAR files and many office files. Apache Ant prior to 1.9.16 and 1.10.11 were affected. (CVE-2021-36374)

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.

An update of the apache package has been released.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
207878	RHEL 9 : ant (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
196576	RHEL 7 : ant (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
196531	RHEL 6 : ant (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
178625	Oracle Business Process Management Suite (Jul 2023 CPU)	Nessus	Misc.	medium
161561	EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : ant (EulerOS-SA-2022-1703)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
160283	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : ant (SUSE-SU-2022:1418-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
160280	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : ant (SUSE-SU-2022:1417-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
155281	EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : ant (EulerOS-SA-2021-2651)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
153606	EulerOS 2.0 SP8 : ant (EulerOS-SA-2021-2453)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
152385	Photon OS 3.0: Apache PHSA-2021-3.0-0274	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	medium
152381	Photon OS 1.0: Apache PHSA-2021-1.0-0418	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	medium
152375	Photon OS 4.0: Apache PHSA-2021-4.0-0073	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	medium
152090	Photon OS 2.0: Apache PHSA-2021-2.0-0374	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	medium

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