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RHEL 8 / 9 : Satellite 6.16.5.2 Async Update (Moderate) (RHSA-2025:9203)
high Nessus Plugin ID 240137
Synopsis
The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.Description
The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 / 9 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2025:9203 advisory.Red Hat Satellite is a system management solution that allows organizations to configure and maintain their systems without the necessity to provide public Internet access to their servers or other client systems. It performs provisioning and configuration management of predefined standard operating environments.
Security Fix(es):
* cjson: segmentation violation trigger through the second parameter of function cJSON_SetValuestring at cJSON.c (CVE-2024-31755)
Users of Red Hat Satellite are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs.
Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise 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 cjson package.See Also
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
http://www.nessus.org/u?e94bfd15
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2277268
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/SAT-34932
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 240137
File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-9203.nasl
Version: 1.1
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks
Published: 6/17/2025
Updated: 6/17/2025
Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 4.7
Vendor
Vendor Severity: Moderate
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 8
Temporal Score: 5.9
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:C
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-31755
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.6
Temporal Score: 6.6
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cjson, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 6/17/2025
Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/26/2024
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2024-31755