RHEL 7 : LibRaw (RHSA-2024:0343)

high Nessus Plugin ID 189526

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:0343 advisory.

LibRaw is a library for reading RAW files obtained from digital photo cameras (CRW/CR2, NEF, RAF, DNG, and others).

Security Fix(es):

* LibRaw: stack buffer overflow in LibRaw_buffer_datastream::gets() in src/libraw_datastream.cpp (CVE-2021-32142)

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 LibRaw package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:0343.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?dd42e5c8

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2172004

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0343

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 189526

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-0343.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/25/2024

Updated: 11/7/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-32142

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libraw, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libraw-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libraw-static, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7

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: 1/23/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/17/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-32142

CWE: 787

RHSA: 2024:0343