CentOS 9 : zlib-1.2.11-34.el9

critical Nessus Plugin ID 191260

Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates for minizip-compat.

Description

The remote CentOS Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the zlib-1.2.11-34.el9 build changelog.

- zlib before 1.2.12 allows memory corruption when deflating (i.e., when compressing) if the input has many distant matches. (CVE-2018-25032)

- zlib through 1.2.12 has a heap-based buffer over-read or buffer overflow in inflate in inflate.c via a large gzip header extra field. NOTE: only applications that call inflateGetHeader are affected. Some common applications bundle the affected zlib source code but may be unable to call inflateGetHeader (e.g., see the nodejs/node reference). (CVE-2022-37434)

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 CentOS 9 Stream minizip-compat package.

See Also

https://kojihub.stream.centos.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=24814

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 191260

File Name: centos9_zlib-1_2_11-34.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/29/2024

Updated: 4/26/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-25032

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-37434

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:centos:centos:9, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:zlib-static, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:zlib, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:zlib-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:minizip-compat-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:minizip-compat

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/CentOS/release, Host/CentOS/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/29/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/25/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-25032, CVE-2022-37434