In Eclipse Mosquitto up to version 2.0.18a, an attacker can achieve memory leaking, segmentation fault or heap-use-after-free by sending specific sequences of "CONNECT", "DISCONNECT", "SUBSCRIBE", "UNSUBSCRIBE" and "PUBLISH" packets.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - In Eclipse Mosquitto up to version 2.0.18a, an attacker can achieve memory leaking, segmentation fault or     heap-use-after-free by sending specific sequences of CONNECT, DISCONNECT, SUBSCRIBE, UNSUBSCRIBE     and PUBLISH packets. (CVE-2024-8376)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 / 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:8906 advisory.

    Red Hat Satellite is a system management solution that allows organizations to configure and maintain     their systems without the necessity to provide public Internet access to their servers or other client     systems. It performs provisioning and configuration management of predefined standard operating     environments.

    Security Fix(es):

    * mosquitto: sending specific sequences of packets may trigger memory leak     (CVE-2024-8376)
    * micromatch: vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (CVE-2024-4067)     urllib3: proxy-authorization request header is not stripped during cross-origin redirects (CVE-2024-37891)
    * node-tar: denial of service while parsing a tar file due to lack of folders depth validation     (CVE-2024-28863)
    * python-django: Potential denial-of-service in django.utils.html.urlize() (CVE-2024-38875)
    * python-django: Username enumeration through timing difference for users with unusable passwords     (CVE-2024-39329)
    * python-django: Potential directory-traversal in django.core.files.storage.Storage.save()     (CVE-2024-39330)
    * python-django: Potential denial-of-service in django.utils.translation.get_supported_language_variant()     (CVE-2024-39614)
    * github.com/jaraco/zipp: Denial of Service (infinite loop) via crafted zip file in jaraco/zipp     (CVE-2024-5569)
    * puppet-foreman: An authentication bypass vulnerability exists in Foreman (CVE-2024-7012)
    * python-django: Potential SQL injection in QuerySet.values() and values_list() (CVE-2024-42005)
    * grpc: client communicating with a HTTP/2 proxy can poison the HPACK table between the proxy and the     backend (CVE-2024-7246)
    * puppet-pulpcore: An authentication bypass vulnerability exists in pulpcore (CVE-2024-7923)
    * foreman: Read-only access to entire DB from templates (CVE-2024-8553)

    Users of Red Hat Satellite are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs.

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.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:8719 advisory.

    Red Hat Satellite is a system management solution that allows organizations     to configure and maintain their systems without the necessity to provide     public Internet access to their servers or other client systems. It     performs provisioning and configuration management of predefined standard     operating environments.
    Security Fix(es):

    * mosquitto: sending specific sequences of packets may trigger memory leak (CVE-2024-8376)
    * foreman: Read-only access to entire DB from templates (CVE-2024-8553)

    Users of Red Hat Satellite are advised to upgrade to these updated     packages, which fix these bugs.

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.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:8718 advisory.

    Red Hat Satellite is a system management solution that allows organizations     to configure and maintain their systems without the necessity to provide     public Internet access to their servers or other client systems. It     performs provisioning and configuration management of predefined standard     operating environments.
    Security Fix(es):

    * mosquitto: sending specific sequences of packets may trigger memory leak     (CVE-2024-8376)
    * foreman: Read-only access to entire DB from templates (CVE-2024-8553)

    Users of Red Hat Satellite are advised to upgrade to these updated     packages, which fix these bugs.

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.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
231745	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-8376	Nessus	Misc.	high
210402	RHEL 8 / 9 : Satellite 6.16.0 (Critical) (RHSA-2024:8906)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
210029	RHEL 8 : Satellite 6.15.4.2 Async Update (Important) (RHSA-2024:8719)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
210028	RHEL 8 : Satellite 6.14.4.3 Async Update (Important) (RHSA-2024:8718)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high

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