Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 : 0148: libarchive (ALINUX3-SA-2023:0148)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 236210

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 a vulnerability as referenced in the ALINUX3-SA-2023:0148 advisory.

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

CVE-2022-36227:
In libarchive before 3.6.2, the software does not check for an error after calling calloc function that can return with a NULL pointer if the function fails, which leads to a resultant NULL pointer dereference.
NOTE: the discoverer cites this CWE-476 remark but third parties dispute the code-execution impact: In rare circumstances, when NULL is equivalent to the 0x0 memory address and privileged code can access it, then writing or reading memory is possible, which may lead to code execution.

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

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 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 236210

File Name: alinux3_sa_2023-0148.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Family: Alibaba Cloud Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 5/14/2025

Updated: 5/14/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-36227

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:bsdcpio-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:bsdtar, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:bsdcpio, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:libarchive, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:bsdcat-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:bsdtar-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:libarchive-devel, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:bsdcat, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:libarchive-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:libarchive-debugsource

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: 12/17/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/8/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-36227

Detections

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