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RHEL 8 : traceroute (RHSA-2024:3211)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 197774

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:3211 advisory.

 The traceroute utility displays the route used by IP packets on their way to a specified network (or Internet) host.

 Security Fix(es):

 * traceroute: improper command line parsing (CVE-2023-46316)

 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 this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL traceroute package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:3211.

See Also

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

http://www.nessus.org/u?99ff6172

http://www.nessus.org/u?c96a6f3c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2246303

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3211

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 197774

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-3211.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/23/2024

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-46316

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:N/A:H

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:traceroute

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: 5/22/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/25/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-46316

CWE: 214

RHSA: 2024:3211