RHEL 8 : rhc (RHSA-2024:10784)

high Nessus Plugin ID 212051

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:10784 advisory.

rhc is a client tool and daemon that connects the system to Red Hat hosted services enabling system and subscription management.

Security Fix(es):

* go-yaml: Improve heuristics preventing CPU/memory abuse by parsing malicious or large YAML documents (CVE-2022-3064)

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 rhc package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:10784.

See Also

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2163037

http://www.nessus.org/u?c3bfd4a1

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:10784

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 212051

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-10784.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/4/2024

Updated: 12/4/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-3064

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:N/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:rhc, 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: 12/4/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/27/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-3064

CWE: 400

RHSA: 2024:10784