RHEL 9 : grafana-pcp (RHSA-2024:6946)

high Nessus Plugin ID 207603

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for grafana-pcp.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:6946 advisory.

The Grafana plugin for Performance Co-Pilot includes datasources for scalable time series from pmseries and Redis, live PCP metrics and bpftrace scripts from pmdabpftrace, as well as several dashboards.

Security Fix(es):

* encoding/gob: golang: Calling Decoder.Decode on a message which contains deeply nested structures can cause a panic due to stack exhaustion (CVE-2024-34156)

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 grafana-pcp package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:6946.

See Also

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2310528

http://www.nessus.org/u?72a7f8ad

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:6946

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 207603

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-6946.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/23/2024

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: Low

Score: 3.6

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-34156

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:9.4, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:grafana-pcp, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9

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: 9/23/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/6/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-34156

CWE: 674

RHSA: 2024:6946