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Oracle Linux 8 : python38:3.8 / and / python38-devel:3.8 (ELSA-2023-7050)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 186136

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2023-7050 advisory.

 - Update to 3.5 to fix CVE-2014-0240 (#1101863)
 - Fix symlink handling in the fix for CVE-2023-24329 Resolves: rhbz#263261
 - Security fix for CVE-2023-24329
 - Add filters for tarfile extraction (CVE-2007-4559, PEP-706) Resolves: rhbz#2173917, rhbz#263261
 - Security fix for CVE-2021-43818 Resolves: rhbz#2032569
 - Security fix for CVE-2021-28957 Resolves: rhbz#1941534
 - Security fix for CVE-2020-27783: mXSS due to the use of improper parser Resolves: rhbz#1901633
 - Security fix for CVE-2023-32681 Resolves: rhbz#2209469
 - Remove patch for CVE-2015-2296, now included in the upstream release.
 - Backport fix for CVE-2015-2296.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

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

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2023-7050.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 186136

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2023-7050.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/21/2023

Updated: 11/2/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2007-4559

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-32681

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.3

Threat Score: 8.9

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-32681

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python38-urllib3, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python38-asn1crypto, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python38-numpy, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python38-packaging, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python38-pyparsing, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python38-cryptography, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python38-cffi, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python38-requests, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python38-markupsafe, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python38-setuptools, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python38-pymysql, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python38-cython, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python38-pip-wheel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python38-scipy, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python38-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python38-pyyaml, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python38-psycopg2-doc, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python38-pysocks, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python38-chardet, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python38-psycopg2, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python38-numpy-f2py, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python38-py, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python38-wcwidth, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python38-idna, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python38-numpy-doc, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python38-psycopg2-tests, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python38-babel, cpe:/a:oracle:linux:8::appstream, cpe:/a:oracle:linux:8:9:appstream_base, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python38-debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python38, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python38-wheel, cpe:/a:oracle:linux:8::codeready_builder, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python38-wheel-wheel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python38-libs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python38-test, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python38-pytest, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python38-ply, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python38-psutil, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python38-pytz, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python38-pluggy, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python38-mod_wsgi, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python38-pycparser, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python38-six, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python38-jinja2, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python38-more-itertools, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python38-pip, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python38-attrs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python38-lxml, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python38-rpm-macros, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python38-tkinter, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python38-idle, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python38-setuptools-wheel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python38-atomicwrites

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/OracleLinux

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/18/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/27/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-4559, CVE-2023-32681