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RHEL 8 : orc (RHSA-2024:5306)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 205502

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for orc.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:5306 advisory.

 Orc is a library and set of tools for compiling and executing very simple programs that operate on arrays of data. The language is a generic assembly language that represents many of the features available in SIMD architectures, including saturated addition and subtraction, and many arithmetic operations.

 Security Fix(es):

 * orc: Stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in ORC (CVE-2024-40897)

 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 orc package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:5306.

See Also

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2300010

http://www.nessus.org/u?c3f7a3f2

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:5306

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 205502

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-5306.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/14/2024

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: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-40897

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.7

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:orc-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:orc, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.10, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:orc-compiler, 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: 8/13/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/26/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-40897

RHSA: 2024:5306