RHEL 9 : protobuf (RHSA-2022:7970)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 167540

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2022:7970 advisory.

The protobuf packages provide Protocol Buffers, Google's data interchange format. Protocol Buffers can encode structured data in an efficient yet extensible format, and provide a flexible, efficient, and automated mechanism for serializing structured data.

Security Fix(es):

* protobuf: Incorrect parsing of nullchar in the proto symbol leads to Nullptr dereference (CVE-2021-22570)

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 9.1 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 protobuf package based on the guidance in RHSA-2022:7970.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 167540

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-7970.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 11/15/2022

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: Low

Score: 3.6

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-22570

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:protobuf-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:protobuf-lite, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:protobuf-lite-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:protobuf, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-protobuf, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:protobuf-compiler

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: 11/15/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/26/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-22570

CWE: 476

RHSA: 2022:7970

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