RHEL 8 : libsoup (RHSA-2024:9525)

high Nessus Plugin ID 210904

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:9525 advisory.

The libsoup packages provide an HTTP client and server library for GNOME.

Security Fix(es):

* libsoup: HTTP request smuggling via stripping null bytes from the ends of header names (CVE-2024-52530)

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 libsoup package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:9525.

See Also

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2325284

http://www.nessus.org/u?152a8f15

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:9525

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 210904

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-9525.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/13/2024

Updated: 11/13/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-52530

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libsoup-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libsoup, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_e4s:8.6, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_aus:8.6, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_tus:8.6

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: 11/13/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/11/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-52530

CWE: 444

RHSA: 2024:9525