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RHEL 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 : Satellite Client Async Security Update (Important) (RHSA-2024:2011)
critical Nessus Plugin ID 193760
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Synopsis
The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.Description
The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:2011 advisory.Red Hat Satellite is a system management solution that allows organizations to configure and maintain their systems without the necessity to provide public Internet access to their servers or other client systems. It performs provisioning and configuration management of predefined standard operating environments.
Security fix:
* puppet-agent: curl heap based buffer overflow in the SOCKS5 proxy handshake (CVE-2023-38545)
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 puppet-agent package.See Also
http://www.nessus.org/u?782d3654
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1992229
Plugin Details
Severity: Critical
ID: 193760
File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-2011.nasl
Version: 1.8
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks
Published: 4/24/2024
Updated: 11/11/2024
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: High
Score: 7.4
Vendor
Vendor Severity: Important
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Critical
Base Score: 10
Temporal Score: 7.8
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-38545
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Critical
Base Score: 9.8
Temporal Score: 8.8
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:puppet-agent, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
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: 4/23/2024
Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/10/2023
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2023-38545