The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2022-8492 advisory.
Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application’s self-reported version number.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2022-8492.
##
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(168132);
script_version("1.5");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2023/03/06");
script_cve_id("CVE-2022-42919");
script_xref(name:"IAVA", value:"2022-A-0467-S");
script_xref(name:"IAVA", value:"2023-A-0061-S");
script_name(english:"Oracle Linux 8 : python39:3.9 (ELSA-2022-8492)");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the
ELSA-2022-8492 advisory.
- Python 3.9.x and 3.10.x through 3.10.8 on Linux allows local privilege escalation in a non-default
configuration. The Python multiprocessing library, when used with the forkserver start method on Linux,
allows pickles to be deserialized from any user in the same machine local network namespace, which in many
system configurations means any user on the same machine. Pickles can execute arbitrary code. Thus, this
allows for local user privilege escalation to the user that any forkserver process is running as. Setting
multiprocessing.util.abstract_sockets_supported to False is a workaround. The forkserver start method for
multiprocessing is not the default start method. This issue is Linux specific because only Linux supports
abstract namespace sockets. CPython before 3.9 does not make use of Linux abstract namespace sockets by
default. Support for users manually specifying an abstract namespace socket was added as a bugfix in 3.7.8
and 3.8.4, but users would need to make specific uncommon API calls in order to do that in CPython before
3.9. (CVE-2022-42919)
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://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2022-8492.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected packages.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2022-42919");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2022/11/07");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2022/11/22");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2022/11/23");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:oracle:linux:8");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-PyMySQL");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-cffi");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-chardet");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-cryptography");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-idle");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-idna");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-libs");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-lxml");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-mod_wsgi");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-numpy");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-numpy-doc");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-numpy-f2py");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-pip");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-pip-wheel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-ply");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-psutil");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-psycopg2");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-psycopg2-doc");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-psycopg2-tests");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-pycparser");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-pysocks");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-pyyaml");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-requests");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-rpm-macros");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-scipy");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-setuptools");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-setuptools-wheel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-six");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-test");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-tkinter");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-toml");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-urllib3");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-wheel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-wheel-wheel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"stig_severity", value:"I");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"Oracle Linux Local Security Checks");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2022-2023 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/OracleLinux", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list", "Host/local_checks_enabled");
exit(0);
}
include('rpm.inc');
if (!get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled')) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item('Host/OracleLinux')) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Oracle Linux');
var os_release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release");
if (isnull(os_release) || !pregmatch(pattern: "Oracle (?:Linux Server|Enterprise Linux)", string:os_release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Oracle Linux');
var os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "Oracle (?:Linux Server|Enterprise Linux) .*release ([0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?)", string:os_release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, 'Oracle Linux');
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^8([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Oracle Linux 8', 'Oracle Linux ' + os_ver);
if (!get_kb_item('Host/RedHat/rpm-list')) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
var cpu = get_kb_item('Host/cpu');
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ('x86_64' >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && 'aarch64' >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'Oracle Linux', cpu);
var module_ver = get_kb_item('Host/RedHat/appstream/python39');
if (isnull(module_ver)) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'Module python39:3.9');
if ('3.9' >!< module_ver) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, 'Module python39:' + module_ver);
var appstreams = {
'python39:3.9': [
{'reference':'python39-3.9.13-2.module+el8.7.0+20879+a85b87b0', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python39-3.9.13-2.module+el8.7.0+20879+a85b87b0', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python39-cffi-1.14.3-2.module+el8.4.0+20109+b7b1db01', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python39-cffi-1.14.3-2.module+el8.4.0+20109+b7b1db01', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python39-chardet-3.0.4-19.module+el8.4.0+20109+b7b1db01', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python39-cryptography-3.3.1-2.module+el8.4.0+20109+b7b1db01', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python39-cryptography-3.3.1-2.module+el8.4.0+20109+b7b1db01', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python39-devel-3.9.13-2.module+el8.7.0+20879+a85b87b0', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python39-devel-3.9.13-2.module+el8.7.0+20879+a85b87b0', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python39-idle-3.9.13-2.module+el8.7.0+20879+a85b87b0', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python39-idle-3.9.13-2.module+el8.7.0+20879+a85b87b0', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python39-idna-2.10-3.module+el8.4.0+20109+b7b1db01', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python39-libs-3.9.13-2.module+el8.7.0+20879+a85b87b0', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python39-libs-3.9.13-2.module+el8.7.0+20879+a85b87b0', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python39-lxml-4.6.5-1.module+el8.6.0+20625+ee813db2', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python39-lxml-4.6.5-1.module+el8.6.0+20625+ee813db2', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python39-mod_wsgi-4.7.1-5.module+el8.7.0+20870+babacad2', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python39-mod_wsgi-4.7.1-5.module+el8.7.0+20870+babacad2', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python39-numpy-1.19.4-3.module+el8.5.0+20364+c7fe1181', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python39-numpy-1.19.4-3.module+el8.5.0+20364+c7fe1181', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python39-numpy-doc-1.19.4-3.module+el8.5.0+20364+c7fe1181', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python39-numpy-f2py-1.19.4-3.module+el8.5.0+20364+c7fe1181', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python39-numpy-f2py-1.19.4-3.module+el8.5.0+20364+c7fe1181', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python39-pip-20.2.4-7.module+el8.6.0+20625+ee813db2', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python39-pip-wheel-20.2.4-7.module+el8.6.0+20625+ee813db2', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python39-ply-3.11-10.module+el8.4.0+20109+b7b1db01', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python39-psutil-5.8.0-4.module+el8.4.0+20109+b7b1db01', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python39-psutil-5.8.0-4.module+el8.4.0+20109+b7b1db01', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python39-psycopg2-2.8.6-2.module+el8.4.0+20109+b7b1db01', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python39-psycopg2-2.8.6-2.module+el8.4.0+20109+b7b1db01', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python39-psycopg2-doc-2.8.6-2.module+el8.4.0+20109+b7b1db01', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python39-psycopg2-doc-2.8.6-2.module+el8.4.0+20109+b7b1db01', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python39-psycopg2-tests-2.8.6-2.module+el8.4.0+20109+b7b1db01', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python39-psycopg2-tests-2.8.6-2.module+el8.4.0+20109+b7b1db01', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python39-pycparser-2.20-3.module+el8.4.0+20109+b7b1db01', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python39-PyMySQL-0.10.1-2.module+el8.4.0+20109+b7b1db01', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python39-pysocks-1.7.1-4.module+el8.4.0+20109+b7b1db01', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python39-pyyaml-5.4.1-1.module+el8.5.0+20364+c7fe1181', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python39-pyyaml-5.4.1-1.module+el8.5.0+20364+c7fe1181', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python39-requests-2.25.0-2.module+el8.4.0+20109+b7b1db01', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python39-rpm-macros-3.9.13-2.module+el8.7.0+20879+a85b87b0', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python39-scipy-1.5.4-3.module+el8.4.0+20109+b7b1db01', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python39-scipy-1.5.4-3.module+el8.4.0+20109+b7b1db01', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python39-setuptools-50.3.2-4.module+el8.5.0+20364+c7fe1181', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python39-setuptools-wheel-50.3.2-4.module+el8.5.0+20364+c7fe1181', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python39-six-1.15.0-3.module+el8.4.0+20109+b7b1db01', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python39-test-3.9.13-2.module+el8.7.0+20879+a85b87b0', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python39-test-3.9.13-2.module+el8.7.0+20879+a85b87b0', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python39-tkinter-3.9.13-2.module+el8.7.0+20879+a85b87b0', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python39-tkinter-3.9.13-2.module+el8.7.0+20879+a85b87b0', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python39-toml-0.10.1-5.module+el8.4.0+20109+b7b1db01', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python39-urllib3-1.25.10-4.module+el8.5.0+20364+c7fe1181', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python39-wheel-0.35.1-4.module+el8.5.0+20364+c7fe1181', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'1'},
{'reference':'python39-wheel-wheel-0.35.1-4.module+el8.5.0+20364+c7fe1181', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'1'}
]
};
var flag = 0;
var appstreams_found = 0;
foreach var module (keys(appstreams)) {
var appstream = NULL;
var appstream_name = NULL;
var appstream_version = NULL;
var appstream_split = split(module, sep:':', keep:FALSE);
if (!empty_or_null(appstream_split)) {
appstream_name = appstream_split[0];
appstream_version = appstream_split[1];
if (!empty_or_null(appstream_name)) appstream = get_one_kb_item('Host/RedHat/appstream/' + appstream_name);
}
if (!empty_or_null(appstream) && appstream_version == appstream || appstream_name == 'all') {
appstreams_found++;
foreach var package_array ( appstreams[module] ) {
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 = 'EL' + 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 (!appstreams_found) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'Module python39:3.9');
if (flag)
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_WARNING,
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, 'python39 / python39-PyMySQL / python39-cffi / etc');
}
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
oracle | linux | 8 | cpe:/o:oracle:linux:8 |
oracle | linux | python39 | p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39 |
oracle | linux | python39-pymysql | p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-pymysql |
oracle | linux | python39-cffi | p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-cffi |
oracle | linux | python39-chardet | p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-chardet |
oracle | linux | python39-cryptography | p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-cryptography |
oracle | linux | python39-devel | p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-devel |
oracle | linux | python39-idle | p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-idle |
oracle | linux | python39-idna | p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-idna |
oracle | linux | python39-libs | p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-libs |