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RHEL 8 : flatpak (RHSA-2023:7038)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 185695

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:7038 advisory.

 - flatpak: TIOCLINUX can send commands outside sandbox if running on a virtual console (CVE-2023-28100)

 - flatpak: Metadata with ANSI control codes can cause misleading terminal output (CVE-2023-28101)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

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

http://www.nessus.org/u?d900515d

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2179219

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2179220

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2222103

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7038

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 185695

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-7038.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/14/2023

Updated: 4/28/2024

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

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-28101

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:flatpak-session-helper, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:flatpak-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:flatpak-selinux, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:flatpak-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:flatpak, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8

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: 11/14/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/16/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-28100, CVE-2023-28101

CWE: 116, 20

RHSA: 2023:7038