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RockyLinux 8 : tang (RLSA-2023:7022)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 376448

Synopsis

The remote RockyLinux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote RockyLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RLSA-2023:7022 advisory.

 * tang: Race condition exists in the key generation and rotation functionality (CVE-2023-1672)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the RockyLinux 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 tang, tang-debuginfo and / or tang-debugsource packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2180999

https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2023:7022

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 376448

File Name: rocky_linux_RLSA-2023-7022.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Published: 11/5/2026

Updated: 11/5/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.61

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-1672

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:rocky:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:tang-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:tang-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:tang

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/5/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/14/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-1672