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Oracle Linux 9 : pam (ELSA-2024-2438)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 195028

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2024-2438 advisory.

 - linux-pam (aka Linux PAM) before 1.6.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (blocked login process) via mkfifo because the openat call (for protect_dir) lacks O_DIRECTORY. (CVE-2024-22365)

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 affected pam, pam-devel and / or pam-docs packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2024-2438.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 195028

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2024-2438.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/6/2024

Updated: 5/6/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, 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:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-22365

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:N/A:H

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:oracle:linux:9:4:appstream_base, cpe:/a:oracle:linux:9::appstream, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:9, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:9:4:baseos_base, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:9::baseos_latest, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:pam, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:pam-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:pam-docs

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/OracleLinux

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/3/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/1/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-22365