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RHEL 9 : dbus (RHSA-2022:8977)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 168706
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Synopsis
The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for dbus.Description
The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:8977 advisory.D-Bus is a system for sending messages between applications. It is used both for the system-wide message bus service, and as a per-user-login-session messaging facility.
Security Fix(es):
* dbus: dbus-daemon crashes when receiving message with incorrectly nested parentheses and curly brackets (CVE-2022-42010)
* dbus: dbus-daemon can be crashed by messages with array length inconsistent with element type (CVE-2022-42011)
* dbus: `_dbus_marshal_byteswap` doesn't process fds in messages with foreign endianness correctly (CVE-2022-42012)
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 RHEL dbus package based on the guidance in RHSA-2022:8977.See Also
http://www.nessus.org/u?901ffd12
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:8977
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2133616
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 168706
File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-8977.nasl
Version: 1.7
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks
Published: 12/13/2022
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: 4.4
Vendor
Vendor Severity: Moderate
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.8
Temporal Score: 5.3
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-42012
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.5
Temporal Score: 5.9
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:dbus-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:dbus-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:dbus-tools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:dbus-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:dbus, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:dbus-daemon, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:dbus-x11, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:9.0
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: 12/13/2022
Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/6/2022