RHEL 6 : busybox (RHSA-2023:5178)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 181520

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2023:5178 advisory.

BusyBox is a binary file that combines a large number of common system utilities into a single executable file. BusyBox provides replacements for most GNU file utilities, shell utilities, and other command-line tools.

Security Fix(es):

* busybox: stack overflow vulnerability in ash.c leads to arbitrary code execution (CVE-2022-48174)

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 busybox package based on the guidance in RHSA-2023:5178.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 181520

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-5178.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 9/18/2023

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: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-48174

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:busybox-petitboot, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:busybox, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_els:6

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: 9/18/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/22/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-48174

CWE: 787

RHSA: 2023:5178

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