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Amazon Linux 2 : rust (ALAS-2022-1817)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 163238

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Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux 2 host is missing a security update.

Description

The version of rust installed on the remote host is prior to 1.61.0-2. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2022-1817 advisory.

 A race condition flaw was found in Rust's std::fs::remove_dir_all function. Rust applications that use this function may be vulnerable to a race condition where an unprivileged attacker can trick the application into deleting files and directories, causing an impact on system data integrity. If the application is privileged, an attacker can possibly delete files they would not usually have access to.
 (CVE-2022-21658)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product 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

Run 'yum update rust' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2/ALAS-2022-1817.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-21658.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 163238

File Name: al2_ALAS-2022-1817.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/15/2022

Updated: 12/11/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.3

Temporal Score: 2.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-21658

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/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:amazon:linux:rls, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rust-debugger-common, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:cargo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rust-doc, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rust-std-static, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rustfmt, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rust-analysis, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:cargo-doc, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rust-src, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:clippy, cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rust, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rust-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rust-gdb

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/6/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/20/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-21658