Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 : 0246: libsoup (ALINUX3-SA-2024:0246)

high Nessus Plugin ID 236259

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-2024:0246 advisory.

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

CVE-2024-52530:
GNOME libsoup before 3.6.0 allows HTTP request smuggling in some configurations because '\0' characters at the end of header names are ignored, i.e., a Transfer-Encoding\0: chunked header is treated the same as a Transfer-Encoding: chunked header.

CVE-2024-52532:
GNOME libsoup before 3.6.1 has an infinite loop, and memory consumption. during the reading of certain patterns of WebSocket data from clients.

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-20240246.xml

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 236259

File Name: alinux3_sa_2024-0246.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:C/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-52530

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:H/A:N

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:libsoup-devel, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:libsoup, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:libsoup-doc, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:libsoup-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:libsoup-debuginfo

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: 11/15/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/11/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-52530, CVE-2024-52532