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CentOS 9 : guestfs-tools-1.48.2-5.el9

medium Nessus Plugin ID 191239

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing a security update for guestfs-tools.

Description

The remote CentOS Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the guestfs- tools-1.48.2-5.el9 build changelog.

 - A vulnerability was found in libguestfs. This issue occurs while calculating the greatest possible number of matching keys in the get_keys() function. This flaw leads to a denial of service, either by mistake or malicious actor. (CVE-2022-2211)

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 guestfs-tools package.

See Also

https://kojihub.stream.centos.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=23753

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 191239

File Name: centos9_guestfs-tools-1_48_2-5.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: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-2211

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:guestfs-tools-bash-completion, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:guestfs-tools, cpe:/a:centos:centos:9, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:virt-win-reg, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:guestfs-tools-man-pages-uk, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:guestfs-tools-man-pages-ja

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/15/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/12/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-2211