RHEL 8 : gdisk (RHSA-2022:7700)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 167074

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:7700 advisory.

- gdisk: possible out-of-bounds-write in LoadPartitionTable of gpt.cc (CVE-2020-0256)

- gdisk: possible out-of-bounds-write in ReadLogicalParts of basicmbr.cc (CVE-2021-0308)

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 RHEL gdisk package based on the guidance in RHSA-2022:7700.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?790bc9ea

http://www.nessus.org/u?96550529

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:7700

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2051939

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2051943

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2065205

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 167074

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-7700.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/8/2022

Updated: 4/28/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-0308

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gdisk

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/8/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/11/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-0256, CVE-2021-0308

CWE: 787

RHSA: 2022:7700