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Rocky Linux 8 : expat (RLSA-2020:4484)

2023-11-0600:00:00
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rocky linux 8
exploitable vulnerabilities
xml parser
denial-of-service attacks
cve-2018-20843
cve-2019-15903

7.4 High

AI Score

Confidence

Low

The remote Rocky Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2020:4484 advisory.

  • In libexpat in Expat before 2.2.7, XML input including XML names that contain a large number of colons could make the XML parser consume a high amount of RAM and CPU resources while processing (enough to be usable for denial-of-service attacks). (CVE-2018-20843)

  • In libexpat before 2.2.8, crafted XML input could fool the parser into changing from DTD parsing to document parsing too early; a consecutive call to XML_GetCurrentLineNumber (or XML_GetCurrentColumnNumber) then resulted in a heap-based buffer over-read. (CVE-2019-15903)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application’s self-reported version number.

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
#
# The package checks in this plugin were extracted from
# Rocky Linux Security Advisory RLSA-2020:4484.
##

include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(184660);
  script_version("1.1");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2023/11/07");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2018-20843", "CVE-2019-15903");
  script_xref(name:"RLSA", value:"2020:4484");
  script_xref(name:"CEA-ID", value:"CEA-2021-0025");

  script_name(english:"Rocky Linux 8 : expat (RLSA-2020:4484)");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Rocky Linux host is missing one or more security updates.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote Rocky Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the
RLSA-2020:4484 advisory.

  - In libexpat in Expat before 2.2.7, XML input including XML names that contain a large number of colons
    could make the XML parser consume a high amount of RAM and CPU resources while processing (enough to be
    usable for denial-of-service attacks). (CVE-2018-20843)

  - In libexpat before 2.2.8, crafted XML input could fool the parser into changing from DTD parsing to
    document parsing too early; a consecutive call to XML_GetCurrentLineNumber (or XML_GetCurrentColumnNumber)
    then resulted in a heap-based buffer over-read. (CVE-2019-15903)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
number.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2020:4484");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1723723");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1752592");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected packages.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:F/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2018-20843");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss3_score_source", value:"CVE-2019-15903");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2019/06/24");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2020/11/03");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2023/11/06");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:expat");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:expat-debuginfo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:expat-debugsource");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:expat-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:rocky:linux:8");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"Rocky Linux Local Security Checks");

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2023 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RockyLinux/release", "Host/RockyLinux/rpm-list", "Host/cpu");

  exit(0);
}


include('rpm.inc');

if (!get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled')) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var os_release = get_kb_item('Host/RockyLinux/release');
if (isnull(os_release) || 'Rocky Linux' >!< os_release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Rocky Linux');
var os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "Rocky(?: Linux)? release ([0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?)", string:os_release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, 'Rocky Linux');
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^8([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Rocky Linux 8.x', 'Rocky Linux ' + os_ver);

if (!get_kb_item('Host/RockyLinux/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) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'Rocky Linux', cpu);

var pkgs = [
    {'reference':'expat-2.2.5-4.el8', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'expat-2.2.5-4.el8', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'expat-2.2.5-4.el8', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'expat-debuginfo-2.2.5-4.el8', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'expat-debuginfo-2.2.5-4.el8', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'expat-debuginfo-2.2.5-4.el8', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'expat-debugsource-2.2.5-4.el8', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'expat-debugsource-2.2.5-4.el8', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'expat-debugsource-2.2.5-4.el8', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'expat-devel-2.2.5-4.el8', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'expat-devel-2.2.5-4.el8', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'expat-devel-2.2.5-4.el8', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', '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;
  var exists_check = NULL;
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['reference'])) reference = package_array['reference'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['release'])) _release = 'Rocky-' + 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 (!empty_or_null(package_array['exists_check'])) exists_check = package_array['exists_check'];
  if (reference && _release && (!exists_check || rpm_exists(release:_release, rpm:exists_check))) {
    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, 'expat / expat-debuginfo / expat-debugsource / expat-devel');
}
VendorProductVersionCPE
rockylinuxexpatp-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:expat
rockylinuxexpat-debuginfop-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:expat-debuginfo
rockylinuxexpat-debugsourcep-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:expat-debugsource
rockylinuxexpat-develp-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:expat-devel
rockylinux8cpe:/o:rocky:linux:8