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Oracle Linux 9 : edk2 (ELSA-2024-9088)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 211549

Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2024-9088 advisory.

 - Resolves: RHEL-55336 (CVE-2024-6119 edk2/openssl: Possible denial of service in X.509 name checks [rhel-9.5])
 - Resolves: RHEL-21653 (CVE-2023-6237 edk2: openssl: Excessive time spent checking invalid RSA public keys [rhel-9])
 - Resolves: RHEL-21150 (CVE-2023-6129 edk2: mysql: openssl: POLY1305 MAC implementation corrupts vector registers on PowerPC)
 - Resolves: RHEL-22490 (CVE-2024-0727 edk2: openssl: denial of service via null dereference [rhel-9])

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle 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 affected packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2024-9088.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 211549

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2024-9088.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/19/2024

Updated: 11/19/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-6129

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:edk2-ovmf, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:edk2-aarch64, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:9, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:edk2-tools, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:edk2-tools-doc, cpe:/a:oracle:linux:9::appstream, cpe:/a:oracle:linux:9::codeready_builder, cpe:/a:oracle:linux:9:5:appstream_base

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/14/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/6/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-6129, CVE-2023-6237, CVE-2024-0727, CVE-2024-1298