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Oracle Linux 8 : expat (ELSA-2022-0951)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 158998

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2022-0951 advisory.

 - Improve fix for CVE-2022-25236
 - Related: CVE-2022-25236
 - Resolves: CVE-2022-25236
 - Resolves: CVE-2022-25235
 - Resolves: CVE-2022-25315
 - CVE-2022-23852 expat: integer overflow in function XML_GetBuffer
 - CVE-2021-45960 expat: Large number of prefixed XML attributes on a single tag can crash libexpat
 - CVE-2021-46143 expat: Integer overflow in doProlog in xmlparse.c
 - CVE-2022-22827 Integer overflow in storeAtts in xmlparse.c
 - CVE-2022-22826 Integer overflow in nextScaffoldPart in xmlparse.c
 - CVE-2022-22825 Integer overflow in lookup in xmlparse.c
 - CVE-2022-22824 Integer overflow in defineAttribute in xmlparse.c
 - CVE-2022-22823 Integer overflow in build_model in xmlparse.c
 - CVE-2022-22822 Integer overflow in addBinding in xmlparse.c
 - Resolves: CVE-2022-23852
 - Resolves: CVE-2021-45960
 - Resolves: CVE-2021-46143
 - Resolves: CVE-2022-22827
 - Resolves: CVE-2022-22826
 - Resolves: CVE-2022-22825
 - Resolves: CVE-2022-22824
 - Resolves: CVE-2022-22823

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle 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 affected expat and / or expat-devel packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2022-0951.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 158998

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2022-0951.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/16/2022

Updated: 10/22/2024

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-45960

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-25315

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:expat-devel, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:expat

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/16/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/1/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-45960, CVE-2021-46143, CVE-2022-22822, CVE-2022-22823, CVE-2022-22824, CVE-2022-22825, CVE-2022-22826, CVE-2022-22827, CVE-2022-23852, CVE-2022-25235, CVE-2022-25236, CVE-2022-25315