Amazon Linux 2023 : minizip-compat, minizip-compat-devel, zlib (ALAS2023-2023-003)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 173150

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Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux 2023 host is missing a security update.

Description

It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2023-003 advisory.

An out-of-bounds access flaw was found in zlib, which allows memory corruption when deflating (ex: when compressing) if the input has many distant matches. For some rare inputs with a large number of distant matches (crafted payloads), the buffer into which the compressed or deflated data is written can overwrite the distance symbol table which it overlays. This issue results in corrupted output due to invalid distances, which leads to out-of-bound access, corrupting the memory and potentially crashing the application. (CVE-2018-25032)

A security vulnerability was found in zlib. The flaw triggered a heap-based buffer in inflate in the inflate.c function via a large gzip header extra field. This flaw is only applicable in the call inflateGetHeader. (CVE-2022-37434)

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

Run 'dnf update zlib --releasever=2023.0.20230222 ' to update your system.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 173150

File Name: al2023_ALAS2023-2023-003.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Amazon Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 3/21/2023

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: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-25032

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-37434

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:minizip-compat, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:zlib, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:zlib-static, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:zlib-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:zlib-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:zlib-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:minizip-compat-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:minizip-compat-devel, cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2023

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: 2/17/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/25/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-25032, CVE-2022-37434

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