RHEL 9 : protobuf (RHSA-2022:7970)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 167540

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for protobuf.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2022:7970 advisory.

- protobuf: Incorrect parsing of nullchar in the proto symbol leads to Nullptr dereference (CVE-2021-22570)

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 RHEL protobuf package based on the guidance in RHSA-2022:7970.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 167540

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-7970.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 11/15/2022

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: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-22570

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:protobuf, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:protobuf-compiler, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:protobuf-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:protobuf-lite, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:protobuf-lite-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-protobuf

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/15/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/26/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-22570

CWE: 476

RHSA: 2022:7970

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