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RHEL 9 : zziplib (RHSA-2024:2377)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 194762

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:2377 advisory.

 The zziplib is a lightweight library to easily extract data from zip files.

 Security Fix(es):

 * zziplib: invalid memory access at zzip_disk_entry_to_file_header in mmapped.c (CVE-2020-18770)

 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 zziplib package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:2377.

See Also

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

http://www.nessus.org/u?ea98eb0d

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2377

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2246907

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 194762

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-2377.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/30/2024

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-18770

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/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:zziplib-utils, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:zziplib, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:zziplib-devel, 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: 8/22/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-18770

CWE: 119

RHSA: 2024:2377