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RHEL 8 : [23.1] Security update for the 23.1 (RPMs) (Low) (RHSA-2024:4079)

low Nessus Plugin ID 200981

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:4079 advisory.

 The quarkus-mandrel-java and quarkus-mandrel-231 packages provide the GraalVM installation for the quarkus/mandrel-for-jdk-21-rhel8:23.1 container image on top of the latest release of OpenJDK 21.0.3.

 Security Fix(es):

 * org.graalvm.compiler/compiler: graalvm: Unauthorized Read Access (CVE-2024-20954)

 * org.graalvm.compiler/compiler: graalvm: unauthorized ability to cause a partial denial of service (CVE-2024-21098)

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

Solution

Update the affected quarkus-mandrel-java and / or quarkus-mandrel-java-jdk-21-binding packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?ab261772

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2278636

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2278674

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4079

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 200981

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-4079.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/25/2024

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: Low

Score: 1.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.6

Temporal Score: 1.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-21098

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.7

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:quarkus-mandrel-java, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:quarkus-mandrel-java-jdk-21-binding, 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: 6/25/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/16/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-20954, CVE-2024-21098

CWE: 284, 285

RHSA: 2024:4079