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CentOS 8 : zziplib (CESA-2020:1653)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 145941

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote CentOS Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CESA-2020:1653 advisory.

 - zziplib: directory traversal in unzzip_cat in the bins/unzzipcat-mem.c (CVE-2018-17828)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected zziplib, zziplib-devel and / or zziplib-utils packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1653

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 145941

File Name: centos8_RHSA-2020-1653.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/1/2021

Updated: 1/24/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-17828

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:centos:centos:8, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:zziplib, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:zziplib-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:zziplib-utils

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/28/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/1/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-17828

RHSA: 2020:1653