RHEL 9 : rust (RHSA-2024:3418)

high Nessus Plugin ID 197973

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:3418 advisory.

Rust Toolset provides the Rust programming language compiler rustc, the cargo build tool and dependency manager, and required libraries.

Security Fix(es):

* rust-cargo: cargo does not respect the umask when extracting dependencies (CVE-2023-38497)

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.

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 rust package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:3418.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 197973

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-3418.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 5/28/2024

Updated: 5/28/2024

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-2023-38497

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.3

Temporal Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/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:cargo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rust-std-static-wasm32-unknown-unknown, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rust-analysis, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:clippy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rust-gdb, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rust-debugger-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rust-lldb, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rust-src, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rust-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rust-std-static, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rustfmt, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:9.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rust, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cargo-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rls, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rust-std-static-wasm32-wasi

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: 5/28/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/4/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-38497

CWE: 276

RHSA: 2024:3418

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