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CentOS 8 : rust-toolset:rhel8 (CESA-2021:1935)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 149755

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote CentOS Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the CESA-2021:1935 advisory.

 - rust: memory safety violation in String::retain() (CVE-2020-36317)

 - rust: use-after-free or double free in VecDeque::make_contiguous (CVE-2020-36318)

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 affected packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:1935

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 149755

File Name: centos8_RHSA-2021-1935.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/19/2021

Updated: 12/29/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-36318

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:centos:centos:8-stream, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:cargo, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:cargo-doc, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:clippy, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rls, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rust, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rust-analysis, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rust-debugger-common, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rust-doc, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rust-gdb, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rust-lldb, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rust-src, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rust-std-static, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rust-toolset, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rustfmt

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/18/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/11/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-36317, CVE-2020-36318

RHSA: 2021:1935