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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS : 7-Zip vulnerabilities (USN-7438-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 234475

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7438-1 advisory.

 Igor Pavlov discovered that 7-Zip had several memory-related issues. An attacker could possibly use these issues to cause 7-Zip to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or execute arbitrary code.
 (CVE-2023-52168, CVE-2023-52169)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu 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 7zip and / or 7zip-standalone packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7438-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 234475

File Name: ubuntu_USN-7438-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/16/2025

Updated: 4/16/2025

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: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.5

Temporal Score: 6.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-52169

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.4

Temporal Score: 7.3

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-52168

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7zip-standalone, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7zip, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/15/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/3/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-52168, CVE-2023-52169

IAVA: 2024-A-0765-S

USN: 7438-1