RHEL 7 : libmspack (RHSA-2019:2049)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 127659

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for libmspack.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:2049 advisory.

The libmspack packages contain a library providing compression and extraction of the Cabinet (CAB) file format used by Microsoft.

Security Fix(es):

* libmspack: Out-of-bounds write in mspack/cab.h (CVE-2018-18584)

* libmspack: chmd_read_headers() fails to reject filenames containing NULL bytes (CVE-2018-18585)

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.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Release Notes linked from 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 these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL libmspack package based on the guidance in RHSA-2019:2049.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 127659

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2019-2049.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 8/12/2019

Updated: 11/5/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-18585

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-18584

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/6/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/23/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-18584, CVE-2018-18585

CWE: 476, 787

RHSA: 2019:2049

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