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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2022-29885

🗓️ 05 Mar 2025 00:00:00Reported by TenableType 
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Linux packages affected by unpatched vulnerability CVE-2022-29885 without vendor supplied patch.

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  - The documentation of Apache Tomcat 10.1.0-M1 to 10.1.0-M14, 10.0.0-M1 to 10.0.20, 9.0.13 to 9.0.62 and
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    network, particularly DoS risks. (CVE-2022-29885)

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if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (empty_or_null(get_one_kb_item("Host/CentOS/rpm-list")) && empty_or_null(get_one_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) && empty_or_null(get_one_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list"))) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

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  "Red Hat Enterprise Linux-6": {
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        "release": "6",
        "pkgs": [
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          {"reference": "tomcat6-lib"},
          {"reference": "tomcat6-log4j"},
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      }
    ]
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  "CentOS Linux-7": {
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        "release": "7",
        "pkgs": [
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          {"reference": "tomcat-admin-webapps"},
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          {"reference": "tomcat-el-2.2-api"},
          {"reference": "tomcat-javadoc"},
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          {"reference": "tomcat-jsvc"},
          {"reference": "tomcat-lib"},
          {"reference": "tomcat-servlet-3.0-api"},
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var distro_constraints_values = linux_unpatched::get_distro_constraints(distro_constraints_arr:distro_constraints_array);
if (empty_or_null(distro_constraints_values)) audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, 'affected');
var report = linux_unpatched::check_unpatched_constraints(distro_constraints_values:distro_constraints_values);

if (!empty_or_null(report))
{
  security_report_v4(
      port       : 0,
      severity   : SECURITY_WARNING,
      extra      : report
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, 'affected');
}

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