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RHEL 9 : exfatprogs (RHSA-2024:2437)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 194758

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for exfatprogs.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:2437 advisory.

 The exfatprogs package contains utilities for formatting and repairing exFAT filesystems.

 Security Fix(es):

 * exfatprogs: exfatprogs allows out-of-bounds memory access (CVE-2023-45897)

 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.

 Additional Changes:

 For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Release Notes linked from 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 RHEL exfatprogs package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:2437.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?d922e0bf

http://www.nessus.org/u?ec9cafdd

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2437

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2246976

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-15865

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-7945

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 194758

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-2437.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/30/2024

Updated: 6/4/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-45897

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:exfatprogs, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9

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: 4/30/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/28/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-45897

CWE: 125

RHSA: 2024:2437