RHEL 7 : libmspack (RHSA-2019:2049)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 127659

Language:

Synopsis

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

Description

An update for libmspack is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

The libmspack packages contain a library providing compression and extraction of the Cabinet (CAB) file format used by Microsoft.

Security Fix(es) :

* libmspack: Out-of-bounds write in mspack/cab.h (CVE-2018-18584)

* libmspack: chmd_read_headers() fails to reject filenames containing NULL bytes (CVE-2018-18585)

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.

Additional Changes :

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Solution

Update the affected libmspack, libmspack-debuginfo and / or libmspack-devel packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 127659

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2019-2049.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 8/12/2019

Updated: 5/19/2022

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-18585

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-18584

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libmspack, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libmspack-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libmspack-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7

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: 8/6/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/23/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-18584, CVE-2018-18585

RHSA: 2019:2049

Detections

Analytics