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RHEL 9 : tuned (RHSA-2025:0879)

high Nessus Plugin ID 214913

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for tuned.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2025:0879 advisory.

 The tuned packages provide a service that tunes system settings according to a selected profile.

 Security Fix(es):

 * tuned: improper sanitization of `instance_name` parameter of the `instance_create()` method (CVE-2024-52337)

 * tuned: `script_pre` and `script_post` options allow to pass arbitrary scripts executed by root (CVE-2024-52336)

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

Solution

Update the RHEL tuned package based on the guidance in RHSA-2025:0879.

See Also

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

http://www.nessus.org/u?68984a6c

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:0879

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 214913

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-0879.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/3/2025

Updated: 2/3/2025

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: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-52336

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/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:tuned-profiles-realtime, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tuned-profiles-sap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tuned-profiles-atomic, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tuned-profiles-postgresql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tuned-profiles-compat, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tuned-utils, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tuned-profiles-sap-hana, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tuned-utils-systemtap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tuned-profiles-openshift, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tuned-profiles-spectrumscale, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tuned-profiles-nfv, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tuned-gtk, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tuned-profiles-cpu-partitioning, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tuned, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tuned-profiles-nfv-host, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tuned-profiles-mssql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tuned-profiles-oracle, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tuned-ppd, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tuned-profiles-nfv-guest

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: 2/3/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/26/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-52336, CVE-2024-52337

CWE: 20, 269

RHSA: 2025:0879