RHEL 7 : libssh2 (RHSA-2023:5615)

high Nessus Plugin ID 182830

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for libssh2.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2023:5615 advisory.

The libssh2 packages provide a library that implements the SSH2 protocol.

Security Fix(es):

* libssh2: use-of-uninitialized-value in _libssh2_transport_read (CVE-2020-22218)

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 libssh2 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2023:5615.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?167f1f28

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2235542

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5615

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 182830

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-5615.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/10/2023

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: 3.6

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-22218

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libssh2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libssh2-docs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libssh2-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7

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: 10/10/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/22/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-22218

CWE: 125

RHSA: 2023:5615