RHEL 7 / 8 : Red Hat JBoss Core Services Apache HTTP Server 2.4.37 SP11 (RHSA-2022:1389)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 160030

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 / 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:1389 advisory.

- libxml2: Use-after-free in xmlEncodeEntitiesInternal() in entities.c (CVE-2021-3516)

- libxml2: Heap-based buffer overflow in xmlEncodeEntitiesInternal() in entities.c (CVE-2021-3517)

- libxml2: Use-after-free in xmlXIncludeDoProcess() in xinclude.c (CVE-2021-3518)

- libxml2: NULL pointer dereference when post-validating mixed content parsed in recovery mode (CVE-2021-3537)

- libxml2: Exponential entity expansion attack bypasses all existing protection mechanisms (CVE-2021-3541)

- openssl: Infinite loop in BN_mod_sqrt() reachable when parsing certificates (CVE-2022-0778)

- httpd: Errors encountered during the discarding of request body lead to HTTP request smuggling (CVE-2022-22720)

- libxml2: Use-after-free of ID and IDREF attributes (CVE-2022-23308)

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 packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3516

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3517

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3518

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3537

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3541

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-0778

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-22720

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-23308

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:1389

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1950515

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1954225

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1954232

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1954242

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1956522

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2056913

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2062202

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2064321

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 160030

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-1389.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/21/2022

Updated: 11/1/2023

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, 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-2022-22720

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:7, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbcs-httpd24-apr-util, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbcs-httpd24-apr-util-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbcs-httpd24-apr-util-ldap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbcs-httpd24-apr-util-mysql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbcs-httpd24-apr-util-nss, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbcs-httpd24-apr-util-odbc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbcs-httpd24-apr-util-openssl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbcs-httpd24-apr-util-pgsql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbcs-httpd24-apr-util-sqlite, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbcs-httpd24-curl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbcs-httpd24-httpd, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbcs-httpd24-httpd-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbcs-httpd24-httpd-manual, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbcs-httpd24-httpd-selinux, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbcs-httpd24-httpd-tools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbcs-httpd24-libcurl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbcs-httpd24-libcurl-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbcs-httpd24-mod_cluster-native, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbcs-httpd24-mod_http2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbcs-httpd24-mod_jk-ap24, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbcs-httpd24-mod_jk-manual, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbcs-httpd24-mod_ldap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbcs-httpd24-mod_md, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbcs-httpd24-mod_proxy_html, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbcs-httpd24-mod_security, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbcs-httpd24-mod_session, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbcs-httpd24-mod_ssl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbcs-httpd24-nghttp2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbcs-httpd24-nghttp2-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbcs-httpd24-openssl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbcs-httpd24-openssl-chil, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbcs-httpd24-openssl-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbcs-httpd24-openssl-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbcs-httpd24-openssl-perl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbcs-httpd24-openssl-pkcs11, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbcs-httpd24-openssl-static

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: 4/20/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/14/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-3516, CVE-2021-3517, CVE-2021-3518, CVE-2021-3537, CVE-2021-3541, CVE-2022-0778, CVE-2022-22720, CVE-2022-23308

CWE: 400, 416, 444, 476, 787, 835

IAVA: 2021-A-0482, 2021-A-0487-S, 2022-A-0038, 2022-A-0121-S, 2022-A-0124-S

RHSA: 2022:1389