RHEL 8 : bzip2 (RHSA-2024:8922)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 210400

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for bzip2.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:8922 advisory.

The bzip2 packages contain a freely available, high-quality data compressor. It provides both standalone compression and decompression utilities, as well as a shared library for use with other programs.

Security Fix(es):

* bzip2: out-of-bounds write in function BZ2_decompress (CVE-2019-12900)

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 bzip2 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:8922.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 210400

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-8922.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 11/6/2024

Updated: 11/6/2024

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

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-12900

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: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:bzip2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:bzip2-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:bzip2-libs, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.10

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: 11/6/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/19/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-12900

CWE: 787

RHSA: 2024:8922

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