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Oracle Linux 8 : cups (ELSA-2024-4265)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 201336

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2024-4265 advisory.

 [ - 1:2.2.6-60]
 - RHEL-40386 cups: Cupsd Listen arbitrary chmod 0140777
 - Delete the domain socket file after stopping the cups.socket service
 - Fix cupsd Listener checks

 [1:2.2.6-59]
 - RHEL-40386 cups: Cupsd Listen arbitrary chmod 0140777
 - Require cups.socket in cupsd service file

 [1:2.2.6-58]
 - CVE-2024-35235 cups: Cupsd Listen arbitrary chmod 0140777

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle 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 affected packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2024-4265.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 201336

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2024-4265.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/3/2024

Updated: 7/3/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.1

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-2024-35235

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

Temporal Score: 3.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/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:cups-devel, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:8:10:baseos_patch, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:8::baseos_latest, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:cups-libs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:cups-lpd, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:cups-filesystem, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:cups-ipptool, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:cups-client, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:cups, cpe:/a:oracle:linux:8::appstream

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/2/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/11/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-35235