RHEL 9 : libksba (RHSA-2022:7090)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 166445

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2022:7090 advisory.

KSBA (pronounced Kasbah) is a library to make X.509 certificates as well as the CMS easily accessible by other applications. Both specifications are building blocks of S/MIME and TLS.

Security Fix(es):

* libksba: integer overflow may lead to remote code execution (CVE-2022-3515)

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 libksba package based on the guidance in RHSA-2022:7090.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?ce4106b4

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:7090

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2135610

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 166445

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-7090.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/25/2022

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-3515

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: cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:9.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libksba, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libksba-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9

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: 10/24/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/7/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-3515

CWE: 190

IAVA: 2023-A-0072

RHSA: 2022:7090