RHEL 8 : apr-util (RHSA-2023:3178)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 175979

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for apr-util.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2023:3178 advisory.

The Apache Portable Runtime (APR) is a portability library used by the Apache HTTP Server and other projects. apr-util is a library which provides additional utility interfaces for APR; including support for XML parsing, LDAP, database interfaces, URI parsing, and more.

Security Fix(es):

* apr-util: out-of-bounds writes in the apr_base64 (CVE-2022-25147)

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 apr-util package based on the guidance in RHSA-2023:3178.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?f12626d9

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2169652

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:3178

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 175979

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-3178.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/17/2023

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: Low

Score: 2.5

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-25147

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:apr-util-openssl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:apr-util-bdb, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:apr-util, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:apr-util-pgsql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:apr-util-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:apr-util-odbc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:apr-util-sqlite, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:apr-util-mysql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:apr-util-ldap

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: 5/17/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/31/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-25147

CWE: 190

RHSA: 2023:3178