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RHEL 9 : motif (RHSA-2024:2217)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 194808

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:2217 advisory.

 - A vulnerability was found in libXpm due to a boundary condition within the XpmCreateXpmImageFromBuffer() function. This flaw allows a local attacker to trigger an out-of-bounds read error and read the contents of memory on the system. (CVE-2023-43788)

 - A vulnerability was found in libXpm where a vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition, a local user can trigger an out-of-bounds read error and read contents of memory on the system. (CVE-2023-43789)

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 motif package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:2217.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2217

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-43788

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-43789

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 194808

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-2217.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: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-43789

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:motif, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:motif-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: 4/30/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/10/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-43788, CVE-2023-43789

CWE: 125

RHSA: 2024:2217