RHEL 7 : uriparser (RHSA-2019:2280)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 127703

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Synopsis

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

Description

An update for uriparser 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.

Uriparser is a URI parsing library, which is written in C and strictly complies with RFC 3986.

Security Fix(es) :

* uriparser: Out-of-bounds write via uriComposeQuery* or uriComposeQueryEx* function (CVE-2018-19198)

* uriparser: Integer overflow via uriComposeQuery* or uriComposeQueryEx* function (CVE-2018-19199)

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 uriparser, uriparser-debuginfo and / or uriparser-devel packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 127703

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2019-2280.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 8/12/2019

Updated: 1/6/2020

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:uriparser, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:uriparser-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:uriparser-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: 11/12/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-19198, CVE-2018-19199

RHSA: 2019:2280

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