RHEL 7 : rust-toolset-1.49 and rust-toolset-1.49-rust update (Low) (RHSA-2021:2243)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 165121

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2021:2243 advisory.

- rust: memory safety violation in String::retain() (CVE-2020-36317)

- rust: use-after-free or double free in VecDeque::make_contiguous (CVE-2020-36318)

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

http://www.nessus.org/u?5562b9ce

http://www.nessus.org/u?a7b74cfd

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:2243

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1949189

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1949192

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 165121

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2021-2243.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/15/2022

Updated: 4/28/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-36318

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rust-toolset-1.49, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rust-toolset-1.49-cargo-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rust-toolset-1.49-clippy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rust-toolset-1.49-rls, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rust-toolset-1.49-runtime, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rust-toolset-1.49-rust, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rust-toolset-1.49-rust-analysis, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rust-toolset-1.49-rust-debugger-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rust-toolset-1.49-rust-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rust-toolset-1.49-rust-gdb, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rust-toolset-1.49-rust-lldb, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rust-toolset-1.49-rust-src, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rust-toolset-1.49-rust-std-static, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rust-toolset-1.49-rustfmt, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rust-toolset-1.49-build, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rust-toolset-1.49-cargo

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: 6/3/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/11/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-36317, CVE-2020-36318

CWE: 119, 416

RHSA: 2021:2243