Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 : 0064: glib2 (ALINUX3-SA-2024:0064)

high Nessus Plugin ID 236154

Synopsis

The remote Alibaba Cloud Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALINUX3-SA-2024:0064 advisory.

Package updates are available for Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 that fix the following vulnerabilities:

CVE-2023-29499:
A flaw was found in GLib. GVariant deserialization fails to validate that the input conforms to the expected format, leading to denial of service.

CVE-2023-32611:
A flaw was found in GLib. GVariant deserialization is vulnerable to a slowdown issue where a crafted GVariant can cause excessive processing, leading to denial of service.

CVE-2023-32665:
A flaw was found in GLib. GVariant deserialization is vulnerable to an exponential blowup issue where a crafted GVariant can cause excessive processing, leading to denial of service.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Alibaba Cloud Linux 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 packages.

See Also

http://mirrors.aliyun.com/alinux/3/cve/alinux3-sa-20240064.xml

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 236154

File Name: alinux3_sa_2024-0064.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 5/14/2025

Updated: 5/14/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

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-2023-29499

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:glib2-debuginfo, cpe:/o:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:glib2-devel, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:glib2-tests, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:glib2-static, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:glib2-tests-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:glib2-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:glib2-devel-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:glib2-doc, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:glib2

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/16/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/7/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-29499, CVE-2023-32611, CVE-2023-32665