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CentOS 9 : iperf3-3.9-11.el9

high Nessus Plugin ID 191357

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing a security update for iperf3.

Description

The remote CentOS Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the iperf3-3.9-11.el9 build changelog.

 - iperf3 before 3.14 allows peers to cause an integer overflow and heap corruption via a crafted length field. (CVE-2023-38403)

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 iperf3 package.

See Also

https://kojihub.stream.centos.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=36160

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 191357

File Name: centos9_iperf3-3_9-11.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: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-38403

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/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:iperf3, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:iperf3-devel, cpe:/a:centos:centos:9

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: 8/9/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/17/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-38403