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RockyLinux 9 : edk2 (RLSA-2024:9088)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 232942

Synopsis

The remote RockyLinux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote RockyLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2024:9088 advisory.

 * mysql: openssl: POLY1305 MAC implementation corrupts vector registers on PowerPC (CVE-2023-6129)

 * openssl: Excessive time spent checking invalid RSA public keys (CVE-2023-6237)

 * openssl: denial of service via null dereference (CVE-2024-0727)

 * edk2: Temporary DoS vulnerability (CVE-2024-1298)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the RockyLinux 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://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2024:9088

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2257571

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2258502

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2259944

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2284243

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 232942

File Name: rocky_linux_RLSA-2024-9088.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 3/19/2025

Updated: 3/19/2025

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

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:rocky:linux:edk2-tools-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:edk2-ovmf, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:edk2-aarch64, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:edk2-tools, cpe:/o:rocky:linux:9, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:edk2-tools-doc

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/17/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/6/2023

Reference Information

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