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RHEL 8 : libmicrohttpd (RHSA-2023:7090)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 185650

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2023:7090 advisory.

 GNU libmicrohttpd is a small C library that makes it easy to run an HTTP server as part of another application.

 Security Fix(es):

 * libmicrohttpd: remote DoS (CVE-2023-27371)

 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.

 Additional Changes:

 For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.9 Release Notes linked from 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 libmicrohttpd package based on the guidance in RHSA-2023:7090.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?819248f8

http://www.nessus.org/u?f041a4a8

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2174313

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7090

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 185650

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-7090.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/14/2023

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: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-27371

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/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:libmicrohttpd-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libmicrohttpd-doc, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libmicrohttpd

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: 11/14/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/28/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-27371

CWE: 125

RHSA: 2023:7090