RHEL 7 : rust-toolset-1.49 and rust-toolset-1.49-rust update (Low) (RHSA-2021:2243)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 165121

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2021:2243 advisory.

Rust Toolset provides the Rust programming language compiler rustc, the cargo build tool and dependency manager, the cargo-vendor plugin, and required libraries.

This enhancement update adds the rust-toolset-1.49 packages to Red Hat Developer Tools. (BZ#1902240)

Security Fix(es):

* rust: use-after-free or double free in VecDeque::make_contiguous (CVE-2020-36318)

* rust: memory safety violation in String::retain() (CVE-2020-36317)

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 these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?5562b9ce

http://www.nessus.org/u?a7b74cfd

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:2243

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1949189

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1949192

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 165121

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2021-2243.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/15/2022

Updated: 6/4/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-36318

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rust-toolset-1.49-rust-lldb, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rust-toolset-1.49-cargo-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rust-toolset-1.49-cargo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rust-toolset-1.49-rust, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rust-toolset-1.49-rust-std-static, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rust-toolset-1.49-rust-debugger-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rust-toolset-1.49, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rust-toolset-1.49-rust-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rust-toolset-1.49-build, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rust-toolset-1.49-rls, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rust-toolset-1.49-rustfmt, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rust-toolset-1.49-rust-gdb, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rust-toolset-1.49-runtime, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rust-toolset-1.49-clippy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rust-toolset-1.49-rust-analysis, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rust-toolset-1.49-rust-src

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: 6/3/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/11/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-36317, CVE-2020-36318

CWE: 119, 416

RHSA: 2021:2243