RHEL 8 : gtk3 (RHSA-2024:6963)

high Nessus Plugin ID 207687

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for gtk3.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:6963 advisory.

The GTK+ library provides a multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces. The gtk3 packages contain GTK+ version 3.

Security Fix(es):

* gtk3: gtk2: Library injection from CWD (CVE-2024-6655)

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 gtk3 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:6963.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?47b17cab

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2297098

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:6963

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 207687

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-6963.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/24/2024

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: High

Score: 7.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.2

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-6655

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7

Temporal Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/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:gtk3-immodule-xim, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.10, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gtk3, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gtk3-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gtk-update-icon-cache, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gtk3-devel-docs, 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: 9/24/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/16/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-6655

CWE: 94

RHSA: 2024:6963