CentOS 8 : rust-toolset:rhel8 (CESA-2021:4270)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 155044

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-2021:4270 advisory.

- rust: incorrect parsing of extraneous zero characters at the beginning of an IP address string (CVE-2021-29922)

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-2021:4270

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 155044

File Name: centos8_RHSA-2021-4270.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/11/2021

Updated: 11/24/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-29922

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 8.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:centos:centos:8-stream, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:cargo, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:cargo-doc, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:clippy, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rls, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rust, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rust-analysis, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rust-debugger-common, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rust-doc, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rust-gdb, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rust-lldb, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rust-src, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rust-std-static, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rust-std-static-wasm32-unknown-unknown, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rust-toolset, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rustfmt

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/9/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/7/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-29922

RHSA: 2021:4270