RHEL 9 : exfatprogs (RHSA-2024:2437)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 194758

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:2437 advisory.

- exfatprogs before 1.2.2 allows out-of-bounds memory access, such as in read_file_dentry_set.
(CVE-2023-45897)

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 exfatprogs package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:2437.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2437

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-45897

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 194758

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-2437.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/30/2024

Updated: 5/2/2024

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: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-45897

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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

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:exfatprogs

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: 4/30/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/28/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-45897

CWE: 125

RHSA: 2024:2437