RHEL 8 : tracker-miners (RHSA-2023:7731)

high Nessus Plugin ID 186762

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for tracker-miners.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2023:7731 advisory.

Tracker is a powerful desktop-neutral first class object database, tag/metadata database and search tool.
This package contains various miners and metadata extractors for tracker.

Security Fix(es):

* tracker-miners: sandbox escape (CVE-2023-5557)

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 tracker-miners package based on the guidance in RHSA-2023:7731.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?b6a7ecbf

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2243096

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7731

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 186762

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-7731.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/12/2023

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: High

Score: 7.3

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.2

Temporal Score: 4.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-5557

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.7

Temporal Score: 6.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_aus:8.2, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_tus:8.2, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_e4s:8.2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tracker-miners

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: 12/12/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/13/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-5557

CWE: 693

IAVA: 2023-A-0657

RHSA: 2023:7731