Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-34155

medium Nessus Plugin ID 227857

Synopsis

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.

Description

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

- Calling any of the Parse functions on Go source code which contains deeply nested literals can cause a panic due to stack exhaustion. (CVE-2024-34155)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2024-34155

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-34155

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-34155

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 227857

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2024_34155.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 3/5/2025

Updated: 8/31/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-34155

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:osbuild-composer, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:11.0, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:osbuild-composer-worker, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:golang-1.21, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:12.0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:golang-1.6, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:golang-1.15, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:osbuild-composer-core, cpe:/o:centos:centos:8, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:grafana-selinux, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:golang-1.13, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:golang-1.19, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:golang-1.14, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:grafana-selinux, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:osbuild-composer-dnf-json, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:osbuild-composer, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:golang-1.20, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:grafana, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:golang-1.8, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:osbuild-composer-dnf-json, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:osbuild-composer-worker, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:golang-1.16, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:golang-1.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:golang-1.9, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:opentelemetry-collector, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:opentelemetry-collector, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:grafana, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:osbuild-composer-core

Required KB Items: Host/OS/identifier, Host/cpu, Host/local_checks_enabled, global_settings/vendor_unpatched

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/6/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-34155