RHEL 8 : rust-toolset:rhel8 (RHSA-2023:4635)

high Nessus Plugin ID 179817

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for rust-toolset:rhel8.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2023:4635 advisory.

- rust-cargo: cargo does not respect the umask when extracting dependencies (CVE-2023-38497)

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 rust-toolset:rhel8 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2023:4635.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?a52e1803

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2228038

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:4635

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 179817

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-4635.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/14/2023

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: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-38497

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.3

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cargo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:clippy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rust, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rust-analysis, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rust-analyzer, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rust-debugger-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rust-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rust-gdb, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rust-lldb, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rust-src, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rust-std-static, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rust-std-static-wasm32-unknown-unknown, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rust-std-static-wasm32-wasi, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rust-toolset, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rustfmt

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: 8/14/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/4/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-38497

CWE: 276

RHSA: 2023:4635