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RHEL 8 : libmaxminddb (RHSA-2024:0750)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 190330

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:0750 advisory.

 The libmaxminddb package contains the MaxMind DB library.

 Security Fix(es):

 * libmaxminddb: improper initialization in dump_entry_data_list() in maxminddb.c (CVE-2020-28241)

 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 libmaxminddb package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:0750.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?7afc521b

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1895379

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0750

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 190330

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-0750.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/9/2024

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: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-28241

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libmaxminddb, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libmaxminddb-devel

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: 2/8/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/6/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-28241

CWE: 122

RHSA: 2024:0750