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RHEL 8 : qt5-qtbase (RHSA-2023:6967)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 185691

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for qt5-qtbase.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:6967 advisory.

 - qt: buffer over-read via a crafted reply from a DNS server (CVE-2023-33285)

 - qt: allows remote attacker to bypass security restrictions caused by flaw in certificate validation (CVE-2023-34410)

 - qtbase: buffer overflow in QXmlStreamReader (CVE-2023-37369)

 - qtbase: infinite loops in QXmlStreamReader (CVE-2023-38197)

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

Solution

Update the RHEL qt5-qtbase package based on the guidance in RHSA-2023:6967.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?819248f8

http://www.nessus.org/u?c53fcf9e

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2209488

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2212747

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2222767

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2232173

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6967

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 185691

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-6967.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/14/2023

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: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-34410

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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:qt5-qtbase, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt5-qtbase-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt5-qtbase-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt5-qtbase-examples, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt5-qtbase-gui, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt5-qtbase-mysql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt5-qtbase-odbc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt5-qtbase-postgresql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt5-qtbase-private-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt5-qtbase-static

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: 11/14/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/22/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-33285, CVE-2023-34410, CVE-2023-37369, CVE-2023-38197

CWE: 120, 295, 400, 835

RHSA: 2023:6967