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Amazon Linux 2023 : yasm, yasm-devel (ALAS2023-2023-275)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 179776

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Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux 2023 host is missing a security update.

Description

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2023-2023-275 advisory.

 - Yasm v1.3.0.78 was found prone to NULL Pointer Dereference in /libyasm/intnum.c and /elf/elf.c, which allows the attacker to cause a denial of service via a crafted file. (CVE-2023-37732)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Run 'dnf update yasm --releasever 2023.1.20230809' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2023/ALAS-2023-275.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2023-37732.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/faqs.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 179776

File Name: al2023_ALAS2023-2023-275.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/14/2023

Updated: 8/15/2023

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: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-37732

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2023, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:yasm-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:yasm-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:yasm-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:yasm

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: 8/3/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/26/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-37732