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RHEL 8 : libmicrohttpd (RHSA-2024:1109)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 191571

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for libmicrohttpd.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:1109 advisory.

 - libmicrohttpd: remote DoS (CVE-2023-27371)

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 libmicrohttpd package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:1109.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?ac1a506d

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2174313

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1109

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 191571

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-1109.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/5/2024

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: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-27371

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libmicrohttpd, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libmicrohttpd-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libmicrohttpd-doc

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: 3/5/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/28/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-27371

CWE: 125

RHSA: 2024:1109