RHEL 9 : libnbd (RHSA-2024:6757)

high Nessus Plugin ID 207394

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:6757 advisory.

Network Block Device (NBD) is a protocol for accessing Block Devices (hard disks and disk-like devices) over a Network. The libnbd is a userspace client library for writing NBD clients.

Security Fix(es):

* libnbd: NBD server improper certificate validation (CVE-2024-7383)

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 libnbd package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:6757.

See Also

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2302865

http://www.nessus.org/u?c1e3d150

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:6757

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 207394

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-6757.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/18/2024

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: 5.2

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-7383

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.4

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ocaml-libnbd-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-libnbd, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libnbd, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:9.4, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nbdfuse, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ocaml-libnbd, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libnbd-bash-completion, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libnbd-devel

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: 9/18/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/5/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-7383

CWE: 295

RHSA: 2024:6757