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RHEL 9 : libarchive (RHSA-2022:5252)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 162649

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for libarchive.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2022:5252 advisory.

 The libarchive programming library can create and read several different streaming archive formats, including GNU tar, cpio, and ISO 9660 CD-ROM images.
 Libarchive is used notably in the bsdtar utility, scripting language bindings such as python-libarchive, and several popular desktop file managers.

 Security Fix(es):

 * libarchive: an out-of-bounds read via the component zipx_lzma_alone_init (CVE-2022-26280)

 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.

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 RHEL libarchive package based on the guidance in RHSA-2022:5252.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?360542e6

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:5252

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2071931

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 162649

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-5252.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/1/2022

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: 5.0

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-26280

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:bsdtar, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libarchive-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:9.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libarchive

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: 7/1/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/28/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-26280

CWE: 125

RHSA: 2022:5252