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Amazon Linux 2 : libudisks2, libudisks2-devel, udisks2 (ALAS-2023-1921)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 171053

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Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux 2 host is missing a security update.

Description

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2023-1921 advisory.

 A vulnerability found in udisks2. This flaw allows an attacker to input a specially crafted image file/USB leading to kernel panic. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
 (CVE-2021-3802)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product 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

pkg_manager = 'yum'Run ' update udisks2' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2/ALAS-2023-1921.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2021-3802.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 171053

File Name: al2_ALAS-2023-1921.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/6/2023

Updated: 12/11/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Temporal Score: 4.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-3802

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.2

Temporal Score: 3.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/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:amazon:linux:udisks2-lsm, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libudisks2-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:udisks2-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:udisks2, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:udisks2-lvm2, cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libudisks2, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:udisks2-iscsi

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/30/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/29/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-3802