RHEL 8 : expat (RHSA-2024:6989)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 207691

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for expat.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:6989 advisory.

Expat is a C library for parsing XML documents.

Security Fix(es):

* libexpat: Negative Length Parsing Vulnerability in libexpat (CVE-2024-45490)

* libexpat: Integer Overflow or Wraparound (CVE-2024-45491)

* libexpat: integer overflow (CVE-2024-45492)

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 these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL expat package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:6989.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 207691

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-6989.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 9/24/2024

Updated: 9/24/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-45492

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/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:expat-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:expat, 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: 8/30/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-45490, CVE-2024-45491, CVE-2024-45492

CWE: 190

RHSA: 2024:6989

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