RHEL 8 : oniguruma (RHSA-2024:0409)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 189542

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:0409 advisory.

Oniguruma is a regular expressions library that supports a variety of character encodings.

Security Fix(es):

* oniguruma: Use-after-free in onig_new_deluxe() in regext.c (CVE-2019-13224)

* oniguruma: Stack exhaustion in regcomp.c because of recursion in regparse.c (CVE-2019-16163)

* oniguruma: integer overflow in search_in_range function in regexec.c leads to out-of-bounds read (CVE-2019-19012)

* oniguruma: Heap-based buffer over-read in function gb18030_mbc_enc_len in file gb18030.c (CVE-2019-19203)

* oniguruma: Heap-based buffer over-read in function fetch_interval_quantifier in regparse.c (CVE-2019-19204)

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 these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL oniguruma package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:0409.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 189542

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-0409.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 1/25/2024

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: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-19012

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/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:oniguruma-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:oniguruma

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: 1/25/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/10/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-13224, CVE-2019-16163, CVE-2019-19012, CVE-2019-19203, CVE-2019-19204

CWE: 121, 125, 416

RHSA: 2024:0409

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