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CentOS 9 : libmicrohttpd-0.9.72-5.el9

medium Nessus Plugin ID 191332

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote CentOS Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the libmicrohttpd-0.9.72-5.el9 build changelog.

 - GNU libmicrohttpd before 0.9.76 allows remote DoS (Denial of Service) due to improper parsing of a multipart/form-data boundary in the postprocessor.c MHD_create_post_processor() method. This allows an attacker to remotely send a malicious HTTP POST packet that includes one or more '\0' bytes in a multipart/form-data boundary field, which - assuming a specific heap layout - will result in an out-of- bounds read and a crash in the find_boundary() function. (CVE-2023-27371)

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 libmicrohttpd package.

See Also

https://kojihub.stream.centos.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=31518

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 191332

File Name: centos9_libmicrohttpd-0_9_72-5.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/29/2024

Updated: 4/26/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-27371

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/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:libmicrohttpd-doc, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libmicrohttpd-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libmicrohttpd, cpe:/a:centos:centos:9

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/4/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/28/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-27371