Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 : 0007: rpm (ALINUX3-SA-2022:0007)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 236682

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-2022:0007 advisory.

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

CVE-2021-20266:
A flaw was found in RPM's hdrblobInit() in lib/header.c. This flaw allows an attacker who can modify the rpmdb to cause an out-of-bounds read. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

CVE-2021-3521:
There is a flaw in RPM's signature functionality. OpenPGP subkeys are associated with a primary key via a binding signature.[1] RPM does not check the binding signature of subkeys prior to importing them. If an attacker is able to add or socially engineer another party to add a malicious subkey to a legitimate public key, RPM could wrongly trust a malicious signature. The greatest impact of this flaw is to data integrity. 1. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4880#section-5.2.1

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 236682

File Name: alinux3_sa_2022-0007.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: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-20266

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-3521

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:rpm-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:rpm-devel-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:rpm-libs-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:rpm-plugin-fapolicyd-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:rpm-plugin-prioreset, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:rpm-plugin-systemd-inhibit-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:rpm-apidocs, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:rpm-cron, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:python3-rpm-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:rpm-devel, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:rpm-sign, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:rpm-plugin-prioreset-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:rpm-sign-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:rpm-plugin-fapolicyd, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:rpm-build, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:rpm-plugin-syslog-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:rpm-plugin-ima, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:rpm-plugin-systemd-inhibit, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:rpm-plugin-selinux-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:rpm-plugin-ima-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:rpm-build-debuginfo, cpe:/o:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:rpm-libs, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:rpm, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:rpm-build-libs-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:rpm-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:rpm-build-libs, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:python3-rpm, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:rpm-plugin-selinux, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:rpm-plugin-syslog

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: 2/11/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/22/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-20266, CVE-2021-3521

Detections

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