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RHEL 8 : python27:2.7 (RHSA-2022:7593)

high Nessus Plugin ID 167090

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for python27:2.7.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2022:7593 advisory.

 Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language that supports modules, classes, exceptions, high-level dynamic data types, and dynamic typing.

 Security Fix(es):

 * python: mailcap: findmatch() function does not sanitize the second argument (CVE-2015-20107).

 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.

 Additional Changes:

 For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.7 Release Notes linked from 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 python27:2.7 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2022:7593.

See Also

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

http://www.nessus.org/u?9f473846

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:7593

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2075390

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 167090

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-7593.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/8/2022

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: 5.5

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8

Temporal Score: 6.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-20107

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.6

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-rpm-macros, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-docutils, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pyyaml, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-urllib3, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-setuptools-wheel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pytz, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-setuptools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-pytest-mock, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-jinja2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-mock, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-requests, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-sqlalchemy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-psycopg2-tests, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-mock, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-backports, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-numpy-f2py, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-markupsafe, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-numpy-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-pytz, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-setuptools_scm, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-psycopg2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-scipy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-lxml, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-attrs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-docs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-chardet, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-backports-ssl_match_hostname, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-virtualenv, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-wheel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-babel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:babel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-pysocks, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-dns, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-pymysql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-virtualenv, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-debug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-chardet, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-attrs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-pip-wheel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-nose-docs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-pytest-mock, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-funcsigs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-tkinter, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-pysocks, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-pyyaml, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-funcsigs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-py, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-pluggy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pytest, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-psycopg2-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-cython, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-urllib3, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-ipaddress, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-numpy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-coverage, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-dns, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-wheel-wheel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:numpy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-nose, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-docutils, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-nose, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-pygments, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-pip, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-ipaddress, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-docs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-test, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-pymongo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-pluggy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-idna, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-markupsafe, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-docs-info, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-pygments, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-py, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cython, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-lxml, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-sqlalchemy-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-backports, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-coverage, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-psycopg2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-pymongo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-pytest, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-psycopg2-debug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:scipy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-tools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-six, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-wheel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-bson, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-sqlalchemy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-setuptools_scm, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-jinja2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-pymysql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-pymongo-gridfs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-requests, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-backports-ssl_match_hostname, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-idna

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: 11/8/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/12/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-20107

CWE: 77

RHSA: 2022:7593