OracleVM 3.4 : cyrus-sasl (OVMSA-2022-0010)

high Nessus Plugin ID 159526

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address security updates:

- In Cyrus SASL 2.1.17 through 2.1.27 before 2.1.28, plugins/sql.c does not escape the password for a SQL INSERT or UPDATE statement. (CVE-2022-24407)

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 cyrus-sasl / cyrus-sasl-lib packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/cve/CVE-2022-24407.html

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/OVMSA-2022-0010.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 159526

File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2022-0010.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Published: 4/5/2022

Updated: 4/5/2022

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-24407

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:cyrus-sasl-lib, p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:cyrus-sasl, cpe:/o:oracle:vm_server:3.4

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/21/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/23/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-24407