RHEL 8 : raptor2 (RHSA-2021:1842)

high Nessus Plugin ID 149684

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for raptor2.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2021:1842 advisory.

Raptor is the RDF Parser Toolkit for Redland that provides a set of standalone RDF parsers, generating triples from RDF/XML or N-Triples.

Security Fix(es):

* raptor: heap-based buffer overflows due to an error in calculating the maximum nspace declarations for the XML writer (CVE-2017-18926)

* raptor2: malformed input file can lead to a segfault due to an out of bounds array access in raptor_xml_writer_start_element_common (CVE-2020-25713)

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 8.4 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 raptor2 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2021:1842.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?862005a9

http://www.nessus.org/u?e8063568

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:1842

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1896120

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1900685

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 149684

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2021-1842.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/19/2021

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: Medium

Score: 5.0

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-18926

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:raptor2-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:raptor2

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: 5/18/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/6/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-18926, CVE-2020-25713

CWE: 122, 125

RHSA: 2021:1842