RHEL 9 : postfix (RHSA-2024:9243)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 210837

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:9243 advisory.

The postfix packages provide a Mail Transport Agent (MTA), which supports protocols like LDAP, SMTP AUTH (SASL), and TLS.

Security Fix(es):

* postfix: SMTP smuggling vulnerability (CVE-2023-51764)

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

Solution

Update the RHEL postfix package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:9243.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 210837

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-9243.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 11/12/2024

Updated: 11/12/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-51764

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:postfix, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:postfix-lmdb, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:postfix-cdb, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:postfix-mysql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:postfix-sqlite, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:postfix-pcre, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:postfix-ldap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:postfix-pgsql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:postfix-perl-scripts

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/12/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/24/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-51764

CWE: 451

RHSA: 2024:9243

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