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RHEL 8 : unzip (RHSA-2020:1787)

low Nessus Plugin ID 143023

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2020:1787 advisory.

 The unzip utility is used to list, test, and extract files from zip archives.

 Security Fix(es):

 * unzip: overlapping of files in ZIP container leads to denial of service (CVE-2019-13232)

 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 unzip package based on the guidance in RHSA-2020:1787.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?0221f53c

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

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1787

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1727761

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 143023

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-1787.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/18/2020

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-13232

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.3

Temporal Score: 2.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/28/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/4/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-13232

CWE: 400

RHSA: 2020:1787