Amazon Linux AMI : hwloc (ALAS-2023-1833)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 181856

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Synopsis

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

Description

The version of hwloc installed on the remote host is prior to 1.7-3.8. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS-2023-1833 advisory.

- An issue was discovered in open-mpi hwloc 2.1.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service or other unspecified impacts via glibc-cpuset in topology-linux.c. (CVE-2022-47022)

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

Solution

Run 'yum update hwloc' to update your system.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 181856

File Name: ala_ALAS-2023-1833.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Amazon Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 9/25/2023

Updated: 12/5/2023

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: Low

Base Score: 3.8

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-47022

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

Temporal Score: 4.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:hwloc, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:hwloc-libs, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:hwloc-gui, cpe:/o:amazon:linux, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:hwloc-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:hwloc-debuginfo

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: 9/13/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/22/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-47022

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