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RHEL 8 : tar (RHSA-2023:0842)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 171720

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2023:0842 advisory.

 The GNU tar program can save multiple files in an archive and restore files from an archive.

 Security Fix(es):

 * tar: heap buffer overflow at from_header() in list.c via specially crafted checksum (CVE-2022-48303)

 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 this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL tar package based on the guidance in RHSA-2023:0842.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?7f4581ac

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2149722

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:0842

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 171720

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-0842.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/21/2023

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: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-48303

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/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:redhat:enterprise_linux:tar, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8

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: 2/21/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/30/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-48303

CWE: 119

RHSA: 2023:0842