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RHEL 8 : tpm2-tss (RHSA-2024:4739)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 203679

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for tpm2-tss.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:4739 advisory.

 The tpm2-tss packages provide the Intel implementation of the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0 System API library. This library enables programs to interact with TPM 2.0 devices

 Security Fix(es):

 * tpm2-tss: Buffer Overlow in TSS2_RC_Decode (CVE-2023-22745)

 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 tpm2-tss package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:4739.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?3ff22834

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2162610

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4739

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 203679

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-4739.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/23/2024

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: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-22745

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tpm2-tss-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tpm2-tss

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: 7/23/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/10/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-22745

CWE: 120

RHSA: 2024:4739