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Oracle Linux 7 : libtpms (ELSA-2022-9240)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 159123

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2022-9240 advisory.

 libtpms [0.8.8-1.el7]
 - spec: Update spec file to version 0.8.8

 * Fri Sep 17 2021 Stefan Berger - 0.8.7-1
 - tpm2: Fixes for building and running with OpenSSL 3.0

 * Fri Sep 10 2021 Stefan Berger - 0.8.6-1
 - tpm2: Marshal event sequence objects' hash state

 * Wed Sep 01 2021 Stefan Berger - 0.8.5-1
 - tpm2: NVMarshal: Handle index orderly RAM without 0-sized terminating node
 - tpm2: Initialize a whole OBJECT before using it

 * Wed Jun 23 2021 Stefan Berger - 0.8.4-1
 - tpm2: Reset too large size indicators in TPM2B to avoid access beyond buffer

 * Tue Jun 01 2021 Stefan Berger - 0.8.3-1
 - tpm2: Work-around for Windows 2016 & 2019 bug related to ContextLoad

 swtpm [0.3.4-5.el7]
 - swtpm: Check header size indicator against expected size (CID 375869) (Stefan Berger) [Orabug: 33876933] {CVE-2022-23645}

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 packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2022-9240.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 159123

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2022-9240.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/22/2022

Updated: 10/22/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.6

Temporal Score: 2.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-3623

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:swtpm, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:7, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:swtpm-tools, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libtpms-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:swtpm-libs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:swtpm-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libtpms

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/22/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/2/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-3623, CVE-2022-23645