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RHEL 8 : c-ares (RHSA-2023:7392)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 186075

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for c-ares.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2023:7392 advisory.

 - c-ares: Buffer Underwrite in ares_inet_net_pton() (CVE-2023-31130)

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 c-ares package based on the guidance in RHSA-2023:7392.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?422c33f7

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2209497

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7392

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 186075

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-7392.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/21/2023

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: 5.9

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-31130

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/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:rhel_eus:8.6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:c-ares, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:c-ares-devel

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: 11/21/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/24/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-31130

RHSA: 2023:7392