RHEL 8 : wayland (RHSA-2023:2786)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 175825

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2023:2786 advisory.

- wayland: libwayland-server wl_shm reference-count overflow (CVE-2021-3782)

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 packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?bf5fbf28

http://www.nessus.org/u?cfe2de5f

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2002627

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2137625

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:2786

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 175825

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-2786.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/16/2023

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: 5.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.7

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-3782

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.6

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/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:libwayland-client, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libwayland-cursor, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libwayland-egl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libwayland-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:wayland, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:wayland-devel

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: 5/16/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/23/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-3782

CWE: 416

RHSA: 2023:2786