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RHEL 9 : librsvg2 (RHSA-2023:4809)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 180246

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for librsvg2.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2023:4809 advisory.

 The librsvg2 packages provide a Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) library based on the libart library.

 Security Fix(es):

 * librsvg: Arbitrary file read when xinclude href has special characters (CVE-2023-38633)

 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 librsvg2 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2023:4809.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?8a57dc3d

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2224945

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:4809

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 180246

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-4809.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/29/2023

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: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-38633

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:9.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:librsvg2-tools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:librsvg2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:librsvg2-devel

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/29/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/22/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-38633

CWE: 22

RHSA: 2023:4809