RHEL 9 : expat (RHSA-2024:1530)

high Nessus Plugin ID 192582

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for expat.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:1530 advisory.

- expat: parsing large tokens can trigger a denial of service (CVE-2023-52425)

- expat: XML Entity Expansion (CVE-2024-28757)

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 expat package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:1530.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?619e5320

http://www.nessus.org/u?83262163

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2262877

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2268766

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1530

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 192582

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-1530.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/26/2024

Updated: 4/23/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-52425

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/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:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:expat, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:expat-devel

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: 3/26/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/4/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-52425, CVE-2024-28757

CWE: 400, 776

IAVA: 2024-A-0134-S, 2024-A-0192

RHSA: 2024:1530