RHEL 8 : Image Builder (RHSA-2022:7548)

high Nessus Plugin ID 167150

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2022:7548 advisory.

- golang: math/big: decoding big.Float and big.Rat types can panic if the encoded message is too short, potentially allowing a denial of service (CVE-2022-32189)

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 weldr-client package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?7742c3e6

http://www.nessus.org/u?790bc9ea

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2059867

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2059868

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2060063

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2062694

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2065734

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2104464

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2113814

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2118829

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:7548

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 167150

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-7548.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/9/2022

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: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-32189

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:weldr-client

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: 11/8/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/2/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-32189

CWE: 400

RHSA: 2022:7548