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RHEL 8 : libmspack (RHSA-2020:1686)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 143008

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2020:1686 advisory.

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

 Security Fix(es):

 * libmspack: buffer overflow in function chmd_read_headers() (CVE-2019-1010305)

 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 8.2 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 this issue 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-2020:1686.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?b7dd0396

http://www.nessus.org/u?dd7b3f20

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1686

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1730568

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1736743

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 143008

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-1686.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/18/2020

Updated: 6/3/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-1010305

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libmspack, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libmspack-devel

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: 4/28/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/15/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-1010305

CWE: 120

RHSA: 2020:1686