RockyLinux 9 : squashfs-tools (RLSA-2024:2396)

high Nessus Plugin ID 235561

Synopsis

The remote RockyLinux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote RockyLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2024:2396 advisory.

* squashfs-tools: unvalidated filepaths allow writing outside of destination (CVE-2021-40153)

* squashfs-tools: possible Directory Traversal via symbolic link (CVE-2021-41072)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the RockyLinux security advisory.

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 affected squashfs-tools, squashfs-tools-debuginfo and / or squashfs-tools-debugsource packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 235561

File Name: rocky_linux_RLSA-2024-2396.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Family: Rocky Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 5/7/2025

Updated: 5/7/2025

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-41072

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:rocky:linux:9, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:squashfs-tools-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:squashfs-tools, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:squashfs-tools-debugsource

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RockyLinux/release, Host/RockyLinux/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/7/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/27/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-40153, CVE-2021-41072

Detections

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