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Amazon Linux 2023 : systemd, systemd-container, systemd-devel (ALAS2023-2023-025)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 173143
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Synopsis
The remote Amazon Linux 2023 host is missing a security update.Description
It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2023-025 advisory.- A flaw was found in systemd. An uncontrolled recursion in systemd-tmpfiles may lead to a denial of service at boot time when too many nested directories are created in /tmp. (CVE-2021-3997)
- A vulnerability was found in systemd. This security flaw can cause a local information leak due to systemd-coredump not respecting the fs.suid_dumpable kernel setting. (CVE-2022-4415)
- systemd 250 and 251 allows local users to achieve a systemd-coredump deadlock by triggering a crash that has a long backtrace. This occurs in parse_elf_object in shared/elf-util.c. The exploitation methodology is to crash a binary calling the same function recursively, and put it in a deeply nested directory to make its backtrace large enough to cause the deadlock. This must be done 16 times when MaxConnections=16 is set for the systemd/units/systemd-coredump.socket file. (CVE-2022-45873)
Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.
Solution
Run 'dnf update systemd --releasever=2023.0.20230222 ' to update your system.See Also
https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2023/ALAS-2023-025.html
https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2021-3997.html
https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-4415.html
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 173143
File Name: al2023_ALAS2023-2023-025.nasl
Version: 1.1
Type: local
Agent: unix
Published: 3/21/2023
Updated: 4/21/2023
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 4.4
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 4.6
Temporal Score: 3.6
Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-4415
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5.5
Temporal Score: 5
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:systemd, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:systemd-container, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:systemd-container-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:systemd-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:systemd-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:systemd-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:systemd-journal-remote, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:systemd-journal-remote-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:systemd-libs, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:systemd-libs-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:systemd-networkd, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:systemd-networkd-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:systemd-oomd-defaults, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:systemd-pam, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:systemd-pam-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:systemd-resolved, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:systemd-resolved-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:systemd-rpm-macros, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:systemd-standalone-sysusers, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:systemd-standalone-sysusers-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:systemd-standalone-tmpfiles, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:systemd-standalone-tmpfiles-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:systemd-tests, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:systemd-tests-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:systemd-udev, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:systemd-udev-debuginfo, cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2023
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/AmazonLinux/release, Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list
Exploit Available: true
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 2/17/2023
Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/8/2022