RHEL 9 : tpm2-tools (RHSA-2024:9424)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 210806

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for tpm2-tools.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:9424 advisory.

The tpm2-tools packages add a set of utilities for management and utilization of Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0 devices from user space.

Security Fix(es):

* tpm2-tools: arbitrary quote data may go undetected by tpm2_checkquote (CVE-2024-29038)

* tpm2-tools: pcr selection value is not compared with the attest (CVE-2024-29039)

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.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.5 Release Notes linked from 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 tpm2-tools package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:9424.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 210806

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-9424.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 11/12/2024

Updated: 11/12/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.5

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.6

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-29039

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/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:tpm2-tools, 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: 11/12/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/28/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-29038, CVE-2024-29039

CWE: 20

RHSA: 2024:9424

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