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RHEL 9 : OpenIPMI (RHSA-2024:8037)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 209001

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:8037 advisory.

 The OpenIPMI packages provide command-line tools and utilities to access platform information using Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI). System administrators can use OpenIPMI to manage systems and to perform system health monitoring.

 Security Fix(es):

 * openipmi: missing check on the authorization type on incoming LAN messages in IPMI simulator (CVE-2024-42934)

 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 OpenIPMI package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:8037.

See Also

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2308375

http://www.nessus.org/u?c1748d26

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:8037

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 209001

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-8037.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/14/2024

Updated: 10/14/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-42934

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openipmi, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openipmi-libs, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openipmi-lanserv, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openipmi-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: 10/14/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/19/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-42934

CWE: 862

RHSA: 2024:8037