RHEL 8 : gmp update (Moderate) (RHSA-2024:1412)

high Nessus Plugin ID 192278

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:1412 advisory.

The gmp packages contain GNU MP, a library for arbitrary precision arithmetics, signed integers operations, rational numbers, and floating point numbers.

Security Fix(es):

* gmp: Integer overflow and resultant buffer overflow via crafted input (CVE-2021-43618)

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 affected gmp, gmp-c++ and / or gmp-devel packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?b16ac63e

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2024904

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1412

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 192278

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-1412.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/19/2024

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: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-43618

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gmp-c%2b%2b, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gmp, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gmp-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: 3/19/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/9/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-43618

CWE: 190

RHSA: 2024:1412