The remote CentOS Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CESA-2022:8640 advisory - krb5: integer overflow vulnerabilities in PAC parsing (CVE-2022-42898). Update the affected packages
Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 199 |
---|---|---|---|---|
CISA | Samba Releases Security Updates | 16 Nov 202200:00 | – | cisa |
Veracode | Denial Of Service (DoS) | 21 Nov 202215:06 | – | veracode |
OSV | ctdb-4.17.3+git.279.ff9bb8a298-1.1 on GA media | 15 Jun 202400:00 | – | osv |
OSV | Red Hat Security Advisory: krb5 security update | 16 Sep 202409:43 | – | osv |
OSV | Important: krb5 security update | 28 Nov 202209:21 | – | osv |
OSV | Important: krb5 security update | 28 Nov 202209:18 | – | osv |
OSV | krb5 - security update | 29 Nov 202200:00 | – | osv |
OSV | Red Hat Security Advisory: krb5 security update | 16 Sep 202409:43 | – | osv |
OSV | Red Hat Enhancement Advisory: krb5 bug fix update | 16 Sep 202409:44 | – | osv |
OSV | krb5-1.20.1-1.1 on GA media | 15 Jun 202400:00 | – | osv |
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2022:8640 and
# CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2022:8640 respectively.
##
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(168319);
script_version("1.6");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2024/10/09");
script_cve_id("CVE-2022-42898");
script_xref(name:"RHSA", value:"2022:8640");
script_name(english:"CentOS 7 : krb5 (RHSA-2022:8640)");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote CentOS Linux host is missing a security update.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote CentOS Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the
RHSA-2022:8640 advisory.
- PAC parsing in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.19.4 and 1.20.x before 1.20.1 has integer overflows that
may lead to remote code execution (in KDC, kadmind, or a GSS or Kerberos application server) on 32-bit
platforms (which have a resultant heap-based buffer overflow), and cause a denial of service on other
platforms. This occurs in krb5_pac_parse in lib/krb5/krb/pac.c. Heimdal before 7.7.1 has a similar bug.
(CVE-2022-42898)
Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
number.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:8640");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected packages.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2022-42898");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vendor_severity", value:"Important");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2022/11/15");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2022/11/30");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2022/12/01");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:krb5-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:krb5-libs");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:krb5-pkinit");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:krb5-server");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:krb5-server-ldap");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:krb5-workstation");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libkadm5");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:centos:centos:7");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"CentOS Local Security Checks");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2022-2024 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/CentOS/release", "Host/CentOS/rpm-list", "Host/cpu");
exit(0);
}
include('rpm.inc');
include('rhel.inc');
if (!get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled')) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var os_release = get_kb_item('Host/CentOS/release');
if (isnull(os_release) || 'CentOS' >!< os_release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'CentOS');
var os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "CentOS(?: Linux)? release ([0-9]+)", string:os_release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, 'CentOS');
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (!rhel_check_release(operator: 'ge', os_version: os_ver, rhel_version: '7')) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'CentOS 7.x', 'CentOS ' + os_ver);
if (!get_kb_item('Host/CentOS/rpm-list')) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
var cpu = get_kb_item('Host/cpu');
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ('x86_64' >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && 's390' >!< cpu && 'aarch64' >!< cpu && 'ppc' >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'CentOS', cpu);
var pkgs = [
{'reference':'krb5-devel-1.15.1-55.el7_9', 'cpu':'ppc64le', 'release':'CentOS-7', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'krb5-devel-1.15.1-55.el7_9', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'CentOS-7', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'krb5-libs-1.15.1-55.el7_9', 'cpu':'ppc64le', 'release':'CentOS-7', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'krb5-libs-1.15.1-55.el7_9', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'CentOS-7', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'krb5-pkinit-1.15.1-55.el7_9', 'cpu':'ppc64le', 'release':'CentOS-7', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'krb5-pkinit-1.15.1-55.el7_9', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'CentOS-7', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'krb5-server-1.15.1-55.el7_9', 'cpu':'ppc64le', 'release':'CentOS-7', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'krb5-server-1.15.1-55.el7_9', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'CentOS-7', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'krb5-server-ldap-1.15.1-55.el7_9', 'cpu':'ppc64le', 'release':'CentOS-7', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'krb5-server-ldap-1.15.1-55.el7_9', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'CentOS-7', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'krb5-workstation-1.15.1-55.el7_9', 'cpu':'ppc64le', 'release':'CentOS-7', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'krb5-workstation-1.15.1-55.el7_9', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'CentOS-7', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'libkadm5-1.15.1-55.el7_9', 'cpu':'ppc64le', 'release':'CentOS-7', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'libkadm5-1.15.1-55.el7_9', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'CentOS-7', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE}
];
var flag = 0;
foreach var package_array ( pkgs ) {
var reference = NULL;
var _release = NULL;
var sp = NULL;
var _cpu = NULL;
var el_string = NULL;
var rpm_spec_vers_cmp = NULL;
var epoch = NULL;
var allowmaj = NULL;
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['reference'])) reference = package_array['reference'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['release'])) _release = package_array['release'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['sp'])) sp = package_array['sp'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['cpu'])) _cpu = package_array['cpu'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['el_string'])) el_string = package_array['el_string'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'])) rpm_spec_vers_cmp = package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['epoch'])) epoch = package_array['epoch'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['allowmaj'])) allowmaj = package_array['allowmaj'];
if (reference && _release) {
if (rpm_check(release:_release, sp:sp, cpu:_cpu, reference:reference, epoch:epoch, el_string:el_string, rpm_spec_vers_cmp:rpm_spec_vers_cmp, allowmaj:allowmaj)) flag++;
}
}
if (flag)
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_HOLE,
extra : rpm_report_get()
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
var tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'krb5-devel / krb5-libs / krb5-pkinit / etc');
}
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