Oracle Linux 8 : fwupd (ELSA-2023-7189)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 186137

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2023-7189 advisory.

[1.7.8-2.0.1]
- Modify %prep to correctly apply downstream patches
- Align sections to 512 bytes [Orabug: 35265981]
- Use objcopy to build arm/aarch64 binaries if binutils 2.30-113.0.3 or newer [Orabug: 35265981]
- Enabled signing for aarch64 [Orabug: 35265981]
- Modify meson.build for fwupd-efi [Orabug: 35265981]
- Update SBAT data to include Oracle [Oracle: 33072886]
- Build with the updated Oracle certificate
- Use oraclesecureboot301 as certdir [Orabug: 29881368]
- Use new signing certificate (Alex Burmashev)

[1.7.8-2]
- Backport the Redfish security fixes which affect IDRAC.
- Resolves: rhbz#2170950

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle 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 affected fwupd and / or fwupd-devel packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 186137

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2023-7189.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Oracle Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 11/21/2023

Updated: 10/22/2024

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-3287

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:fwupd-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:fwupd, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:8:9:baseos_base, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:8, cpe:/a:oracle:linux:8::codeready_builder, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:8::baseos_latest

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/17/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/28/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-3287

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