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CentOS 9 : xterm-366-8.el9

medium Nessus Plugin ID 191231

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing a security update for xterm.

Description

The remote CentOS Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the xterm-366-8.el9 build changelog.

 - xterm through Patch 370, when Sixel support is enabled, allows attackers to trigger a buffer overflow in set_sixel in graphics_sixel.c via crafted text. (CVE-2022-24130)

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 CentOS 9 Stream xterm package.

See Also

https://kojihub.stream.centos.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=16884

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 191231

File Name: centos9_xterm-366-8.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/29/2024

Updated: 4/26/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.6

Temporal Score: 2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-24130

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/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:centos:centos:xterm-resize, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:xterm, cpe:/a:centos:centos:9

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/CentOS/release, Host/CentOS/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/9/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/31/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-24130