RHEL 8 : libX11 (RHSA-2024:2973)

high Nessus Plugin ID 197769

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for libX11.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:2973 advisory.

The libX11 packages contain the core X11 protocol client library.

Security Fix(es):

* libX11: out-of-bounds memory access in _XkbReadKeySyms() (CVE-2023-43785)

* libX11: stack exhaustion from infinite recursion in PutSubImage() (CVE-2023-43786)

* libX11: integer overflow in XCreateImage() leading to a heap overflow (CVE-2023-43787)

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 8.10 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 these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL libX11 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:2973.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 197769

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-2973.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 5/23/2024

Updated: 5/23/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-43787

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/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:redhat:enterprise_linux:libx11-xcb, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libx11, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libx11-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libx11-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/22/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/4/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-43785, CVE-2023-43786, CVE-2023-43787

CWE: 122, 400, 787

RHSA: 2024:2973

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