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Rocky Linux 9 : python-lxml (RLSA-2022:8226)

2023-11-0700:00:00
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rocky linux 9
python-lxml
vulnerability
rlsa-2022:8226
null pointer dereference
denial of service
application crash
libxml2
cve-2022-2309
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The remote Rocky Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RLSA-2022:8226 advisory.

  • NULL Pointer Dereference allows attackers to cause a denial of service (or application crash). This only applies when lxml is used together with libxml2 2.9.10 through 2.9.14. libxml2 2.9.9 and earlier are not affected. It allows triggering crashes through forged input data, given a vulnerable code sequence in the application. The vulnerability is caused by the iterwalk function (also used by the canonicalize function). Such code shouldn’t be in wide-spread use, given that parsing + iterwalk would usually be replaced with the more efficient iterparse function. However, an XML converter that serialises to C14N would also be vulnerable, for example, and there are legitimate use cases for this code sequence. If untrusted input is received (also remotely) and processed via iterwalk function, a crash can be triggered.
    (CVE-2022-2309)

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 package checks in this plugin were extracted from
# Rocky Linux Security Advisory RLSA-2022:8226.
##

include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(185062);
  script_version("1.2");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2023/12/22");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2022-2309");
  script_xref(name:"RLSA", value:"2022:8226");

  script_name(english:"Rocky Linux 9 : python-lxml (RLSA-2022:8226)");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Rocky Linux host is missing a security update.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote Rocky Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the
RLSA-2022:8226 advisory.

  - NULL Pointer Dereference allows attackers to cause a denial of service (or application crash). This only
    applies when lxml is used together with libxml2 2.9.10 through 2.9.14. libxml2 2.9.9 and earlier are not
    affected. It allows triggering crashes through forged input data, given a vulnerable code sequence in the
    application. The vulnerability is caused by the iterwalk function (also used by the canonicalize
    function). Such code shouldn't be in wide-spread use, given that parsing + iterwalk would usually be
    replaced with the more efficient iterparse function. However, an XML converter that serialises to C14N
    would also be vulnerable, for example, and there are legitimate use cases for this code sequence. If
    untrusted input is received (also remotely) and processed via iterwalk function, a crash can be triggered.
    (CVE-2022-2309)

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://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2022:8226");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2107571");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected python3-lxml and / or python3-lxml-debuginfo packages.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
  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:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/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-2022-2309");

  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:"2022/07/05");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2022/11/15");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2023/11/07");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python3-lxml");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python3-lxml-debuginfo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:rocky:linux:9");
  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:"^9([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Rocky Linux 9.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':'python3-lxml-4.6.5-3.el9', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'python3-lxml-4.6.5-3.el9', 'cpu':'s390x', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'python3-lxml-4.6.5-3.el9', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'python3-lxml-debuginfo-4.6.5-3.el9', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'python3-lxml-debuginfo-4.6.5-3.el9', 'cpu':'s390x', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'python3-lxml-debuginfo-4.6.5-3.el9', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'9', '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_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, 'python3-lxml / python3-lxml-debuginfo');
}
VendorProductVersionCPE
rockylinuxpython3-lxmlp-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python3-lxml
rockylinuxpython3-lxml-debuginfop-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python3-lxml-debuginfo
rockylinux9cpe:/o:rocky:linux:9