RHEL 8 : Red Hat Virtualization Host security and enhancement update [ovirt-4.4.10] Async #2 (Important) (RHSA-2022:1053)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 159222

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:1053 advisory.

- expat: Malformed 2- and 3-byte UTF-8 sequences can lead to arbitrary code execution (CVE-2022-25235)

- expat: Namespace-separator characters in xmlns[:prefix] attribute values can lead to arbitrary code execution (CVE-2022-25236)

- expat: Integer overflow in storeRawNames() (CVE-2022-25315)

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

Solution

Update the affected redhat-virtualization-host-image-update package.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-25235

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-25236

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-25315

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:1053

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2056363

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2056366

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2056370

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 159222

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-1053.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/25/2022

Updated: 11/3/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-25315

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9.1

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:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:redhat-virtualization-host-image-update

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/24/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/16/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-25235, CVE-2022-25236, CVE-2022-25315

CWE: 179, 190, 20, 787, 838

RHSA: 2022:1053