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Amazon Linux AMI : xorg-x11-server (ALAS-2024-1932)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 194724

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Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.

Description

It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS-2024-1932 advisory.

 Heap buffer overflow in DeviceFocusEvent and ProcXIQueryPointer

 NOTE: https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg/2024-January/061525.htmlNOTE:
 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/commit/9e2ecb2af8302dedc49cb6a63ebe063c58a9e7e3 (CVE-2023-6816)

 Reattaching to different master device may lead to out-of-bounds memory access

 NOTE: https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg/2024-January/061525.htmlNOTE:
 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/commit/ece23be888a93b741aa1209d1dbf64636109d6a5NOTE:
 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/commit/219c54b8a3337456ce5270ded6a67bcde53553d5NOTE:
 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/commit/df3c65706eb169d5938df0052059f3e0d5981b74 (CVE-2024-0229)

 Heap buffer overflow in XISendDeviceHierarchyEvent

 NOTE: https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg/2024-January/061525.htmlNOTE:
 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/commit/4a5e9b1895627d40d26045bd0b7ef3dce503cbd1 (CVE-2024-21885)

 Heap buffer overflow in DisableDevice

 NOTE: https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg/2024-January/061525.htmlNOTE:
 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/commit/bc1fdbe46559dd947674375946bbef54dd0ce36bNOTE:
 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/commit/26769aa71fcbe0a8403b7fb13b7c9010cc07c3a8 (CVE-2024-21886)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Run 'yum update xorg-x11-server' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2024-1932.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2023-6816.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2024-0229.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2024-21885.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2024-21886.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/faqs.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 194724

File Name: ala_ALAS-2024-1932.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/29/2024

Updated: 12/11/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-6816

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:xorg-x11-server-xephyr, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:xorg-x11-server-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:xorg-x11-server-common, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:xorg-x11-server-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:xorg-x11-server-xdmx, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:xorg-x11-server-source, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:xorg-x11-server-xvfb, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:xorg-x11-server-xnest, cpe:/o:amazon:linux, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:xorg-x11-server-xorg

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/25/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/16/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-6816, CVE-2024-0229, CVE-2024-21885, CVE-2024-21886