CentOS 8 : p11-kit (CESA-2021:1609)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 149740

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote CentOS Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the CESA-2021:1609 advisory.

- p11-kit: integer overflow when allocating memory for arrays or attributes and object identifiers (CVE-2020-29361)

- p11-kit: out-of-bounds read in p11_rpc_buffer_get_byte_array function in rpc-message.c (CVE-2020-29362)

- p11-kit: out-of-bounds write in p11_rpc_buffer_get_byte_array_value function in rpc-message.c (CVE-2020-29363)

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 packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:1609

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 149740

File Name: centos8_RHSA-2021-1609.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/19/2021

Updated: 6/2/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-29362

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:centos:centos:8-stream, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:p11-kit, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:p11-kit-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:p11-kit-server, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:p11-kit-trust

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/18/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/16/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-29361, CVE-2020-29362, CVE-2020-29363

RHSA: 2021:1609