RHEL 8 : rust-toolset:rhel8 (RHSA-2021:4270)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 155165

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2021:4270 advisory.

Rust Toolset provides the Rust programming language compiler rustc, the cargo build tool and dependency manager, and required libraries.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: rust (1.54.0). (BZ#1945805)

Security Fix(es):

* rust: incorrect parsing of extraneous zero characters at the beginning of an IP address string (CVE-2021-29922)

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 8.5 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 affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 155165

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2021-4270.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 11/11/2021

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-29922

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 8.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rust-toolset, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cargo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rust-std-static-wasm32-unknown-unknown, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rust-analysis, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:clippy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rust-gdb, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rust-debugger-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rust-lldb, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rust-src, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rust-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rust-std-static, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rustfmt, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rust, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cargo-doc, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rls

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: 11/9/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/7/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-29922

CWE: 20

RHSA: 2021:4270

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