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Oracle Linux 8 : libXpm (ELSA-2024-2974)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 197992

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2024-2974 advisory.

 [3.5.12-11]
 - Drop hardening patches from previous version to keep ABI compatibility

 [3.5.12-10]
 - CVE-2023-43786 libX11: stack exhaustion from infinite recursion in PutSubImage()
 - CVE-2023-43787 libX11: integer overflow in XCreateImage() leading to a heap overflow
 - CVE-2023-43788 libXpm: out of bounds read in XpmCreateXpmImageFromBuffer()
 - CVE-2023-43789 libXpm: out of bounds read on XPM with corrupted colormap

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle 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 affected libXpm and / or libXpm-devel packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2024-2974.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 197992

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2024-2974.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/28/2024

Updated: 5/28/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-43789

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libxpm, cpe:/a:oracle:linux:8:10:appstream_base, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libxpm-devel, cpe:/a:oracle:linux:8::appstream

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/23/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/10/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-43788, CVE-2023-43789