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Amazon Linux 2 : protobuf (ALAS-2023-1948)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 171821

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Synopsis

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

Description

The version of protobuf installed on the remote host is prior to 2.5.0-8. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2023-1948 advisory.

 A flaw was found in protobuf. The vulnerability occurs due to incorrect parsing of a NULL character in the proto symbol and leads to a Null pointer dereference. This flaw allows an attacker to execute unauthorized code or commands, read memory, modify memory. (CVE-2021-22570)

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

Run 'yum update protobuf' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2/ALAS-2023-1948.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2021-22570.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/faqs.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 171821

File Name: al2_ALAS-2023-1948.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/23/2023

Updated: 12/11/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

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:amazon:linux:protobuf-compiler, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:protobuf-python, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:protobuf-java, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:protobuf-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:protobuf-emacs-el, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:protobuf-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:protobuf-emacs, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:protobuf-lite, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:protobuf-lite-devel, cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:protobuf-lite-static, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:protobuf-vim, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:protobuf-javadoc, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:protobuf, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:protobuf-static

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/17/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/26/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-22570