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RHEL 8 : tar (RHSA-2023:5610)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 182826

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2023:5610 advisory.

 The GNU tar program can save multiple files in an archive and restore files from an archive.

 Security Fix(es):

 * tar: heap buffer overflow at from_header() in list.c via specially crafted checksum (CVE-2022-48303)

 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 tar package based on the guidance in RHSA-2023:5610.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?69e0d19e

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2149722

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5610

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 182826

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-5610.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/10/2023

Updated: 11/7/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-48303

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tar, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.6

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: 10/10/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/30/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-48303

CWE: 119

RHSA: 2023:5610