RHEL 8 : xmlrpc-c (RHSA-2024:4259)

high Nessus Plugin ID 201297

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for xmlrpc-c.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:4259 advisory.

XML-RPC is a remote procedure call (RPC) protocol that uses XML to encode its calls and HTTP as a transport mechanism. The xmlrpc-c packages provide a network protocol to allow a client program to make a simple RPC (remote procedure call) over the Internet. It converts an RPC into an XML document, sends it to a remote server using HTTP, and gets back the response in XML.

Security Fix(es):

* expat: parsing large tokens can trigger a denial of service (CVE-2023-52425)

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 xmlrpc-c package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:4259.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 201297

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-4259.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 7/2/2024

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: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-52425

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xmlrpc-c-client%2b%2b, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xmlrpc-c-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xmlrpc-c-client, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xmlrpc-c-c%2b%2b, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.10, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xmlrpc-c, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8

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: 7/2/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/4/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-52425

CWE: 400

RHSA: 2024:4259

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