RHEL 9 : autotrace (RHSA-2023:2589)

high Nessus Plugin ID 175481

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2023:2589 advisory.

AutoTrace is a program for converting bitmaps to vector graphics.

Security Fix(es):

* autotrace: heap-buffer overflow via the ReadImage() at input-bmp.c (CVE-2022-32323)

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.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Release Notes linked from 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 autotrace package based on the guidance in RHSA-2023:2589.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?73519d22

http://www.nessus.org/u?ecefa061

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2107471

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:2589

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 175481

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-2589.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/13/2023

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: 5.5

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-32323

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.3

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:autotrace, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/9/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/14/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-32323

CWE: 119

RHSA: 2023:2589