Lucene search
K

Rocky Linux 8 : expat (RLSA-2024:6989)

🗓️ 30 Sep 2024 00:00:00Reported by TenableType 
nessus
 nessus
🔗 www.tenable.com👁 44 Views

The remote Rocky Linux 8 host has packages affected by multiple vulnerabilities. Nessus has not tested for these issues

Related
Refs
Code
ReporterTitlePublishedViews
Family
IBM Security Bulletins
Security Bulletin: Multiple Vulnerabilities have been identified in IBM Db2 shipped with IBM WebSphere Remote Server
7 Aug 202515:41
ibm
IBM Security Bulletins
Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in libexpat affects IBM Cloud Pak System[CVE-2024-45490]
28 Jan 202522:08
ibm
IBM Security Bulletins
Security Bulletin: Multiple Vulnerabilities in IBM API Connect
15 Mar 202500:18
ibm
IBM Security Bulletins
Security Bulletin: There are multiple vulnerabilities in IBM DB2 bundled with IBM Application Performance Management products.
8 Aug 202509:58
ibm
IBM Security Bulletins
Security Bulletin: IBM App Connect Enterprise Certified Container UBI updates
4 Dec 202410:17
ibm
IBM Security Bulletins
Security Bulletin: Oracle Outside In Technology (OIT) security vulnerabilities in FileNet Content Manager (FNCM) Content Based Retrieval (CBR) content indexing
9 Jul 202515:19
ibm
IBM Security Bulletins
Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in libexpat affects IBM watsonx Assistant Cartridge and IBM watsonx Orchestrate with watsonx Assistant Cartridge - Assistant Builder Component.
12 Mar 202517:39
ibm
IBM Security Bulletins
Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge is vulnerable to multiple Base OS issues
19 Jun 202517:28
ibm
IBM Security Bulletins
Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data v5.0.3 is vulnerable to multiple Base OS issues
15 Apr 202503:20
ibm
IBM Security Bulletins
Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities exists in IBM Netezza Analytics - NPS
11 Jul 202511:19
ibm
Rows per page
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
#
# The package checks in this plugin were extracted from
# Rocky Linux Security Advisory RLSA-2024:6989.
##

include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(207948);
  script_version("1.2");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2025/03/21");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2024-45490", "CVE-2024-45491", "CVE-2024-45492");
  script_xref(name:"RLSA", value:"2024:6989");
  script_xref(name:"IAVA", value:"2024-A-0543-S");

  script_name(english:"Rocky Linux 8 : expat (RLSA-2024:6989)");

  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-2024:6989 advisory.

    * libexpat: Negative Length Parsing Vulnerability in libexpat (CVE-2024-45490)

    * libexpat: Integer Overflow or Wraparound (CVE-2024-45491)

    * libexpat: integer overflow (CVE-2024-45492)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Rocky Linux security advisory.

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-2024:6989");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2308615");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2308616");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2308617");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected packages.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/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:N/AC:L/PR:N/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-2024-45492");

  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:"2024/08/30");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2024/09/30");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2024/09/30");

  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_set_attribute(attribute:"stig_severity", value:"I");
  script_end_attributes();

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

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2024-2025 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-2.2.5-15.el8_10', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'expat-2.2.5-15.el8_10', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'expat-2.2.5-15.el8_10', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'expat-debuginfo-2.2.5-15.el8_10', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'expat-debuginfo-2.2.5-15.el8_10', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'expat-debuginfo-2.2.5-15.el8_10', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'expat-debugsource-2.2.5-15.el8_10', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'expat-debugsource-2.2.5-15.el8_10', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'expat-debugsource-2.2.5-15.el8_10', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'expat-devel-2.2.5-15.el8_10', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'expat-devel-2.2.5-15.el8_10', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'expat-devel-2.2.5-15.el8_10', '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');
}

Data

Build on a solid foundation with Vulners data

We provide the essential building blocks for cybersecurity solutions with comprehensive, structured, and constantly updated vulnerability and exploits data

Api

Power your application with Vulners API

The Vulners REST API offers reliable, high-performance access to vulnerability intelligence, with 99.9% SLA uptime and CDN-backed data delivery for seamless global access

App

Assess and manage vulnerabilities with Vulners tools

Built on top of Vulners' database and SDK, end-user solutions give security professionals and developers lightweight and powerful tools for vulnerability remediation

21 Mar 2025 00:00Current
7.5High risk
Vulners AI Score7.5
CVSS 3.19.8
EPSS0.01686
SSVC
44