Amazon Linux AMI : cups (ALAS-2023-1777)

high Nessus Plugin ID 178498

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Synopsis

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

Description

The version of cups installed on the remote host is prior to 1.4.2-67.22. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS-2023-1777 advisory.

A vulnerability was found in CUPS. This issue occurs due to logging data of free memory to the logging service AFTER the connection has been closed, when it should have logged the data immediately before the connection closed, resulting in a use-after-free in cupsdAcceptClient() in scheduler/client.c (CVE-2023-34241)

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 cups' to update your system.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 178498

File Name: ala_ALAS-2023-1777.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Amazon Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 7/20/2023

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: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.2

Temporal Score: 4.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-34241

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:cups-libs, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:cups-php, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:cups-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:cups-lpd, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:cups-devel, cpe:/o:amazon:linux, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:cups

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: 7/5/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/22/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-34241

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