RHEL 7 : gcab (RHSA-2018:0350)

high Nessus Plugin ID 107017

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for gcab.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2018:0350 advisory.

The gcab package contains a utility for managing the Cabinet archives. It can list, extract, and create Microsoft cabinet (.cab) files.

Security Fix(es):

* gcab: Extracting malformed .cab files causes stack smashing potentially leading to arbitrary code execution (CVE-2018-5345)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, 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.

Solution

Update the RHEL gcab package based on the guidance in RHSA-2018:0350.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 107017

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2018-0350.nasl

Version: 3.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 2/27/2018

Updated: 11/5/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-5345

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gcab, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libgcab1-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libgcab1, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/26/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/12/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-5345

CWE: 121

RHSA: 2018:0350

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