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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-0727

🗓️ 05 Mar 2025 00:00:00Reported by TenableType 
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 nessus
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Linux distros have unpatched vulnerability CVE-2024-0727 affecting OpenSSL and PKCS12 files.

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  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied
patch available.

  - Issue summary: Processing a maliciously formatted PKCS12 file may lead OpenSSL to crash leading to a
    potential Denial of Service attack Impact summary: Applications loading files in the PKCS12 format from
    untrusted sources might terminate abruptly. A file in PKCS12 format can contain certificates and keys and
    may come from an untrusted source. The PKCS12 specification allows certain fields to be NULL, but OpenSSL
    does not correctly check for this case. This can lead to a NULL pointer dereference that results in
    OpenSSL crashing. If an application processes PKCS12 files from an untrusted source using the OpenSSL APIs
    then that application will be vulnerable to this issue. OpenSSL APIs that are vulnerable to this are:
    PKCS12_parse(), PKCS12_unpack_p7data(), PKCS12_unpack_p7encdata(), PKCS12_unpack_authsafes() and
    PKCS12_newpass(). We have also fixed a similar issue in SMIME_write_PKCS7(). However since this function
    is related to writing data we do not consider it security significant. The FIPS modules in 3.2, 3.1 and
    3.0 are not affected by this issue. (CVE-2024-0727)

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if (!get_kb_item("global_settings/vendor_unpatched")) exit(0, "Unpatched Vulnerabilities Detection not active.");
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);

include('linux_unpatched.inc');

var distro_constraints_array = {
  "Ubuntu Linux-16.04": {
    "package_manager": "dpkg-l",
    "constraints": [
      {
        "release": "16.04",
        "pkgs": [
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        "release": "18.04",
        "pkgs": [
          {"reference": "edk2"}
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      }
    ]
  },
  "Ubuntu Linux-20.04": {
    "package_manager": "dpkg-l",
    "constraints": [
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        "release": "20.04",
        "pkgs": [
          {"reference": "ovmf"},
          {"reference": "qemu-efi"},
          {"reference": "qemu-efi-aarch64"},
          {"reference": "qemu-efi-arm"}
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "Ubuntu Linux-22.04": {
    "package_manager": "dpkg-l",
    "constraints": [
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        "release": "22.04",
        "pkgs": [
          {"reference": "nodejs"}
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  "CentOS Linux-8": {
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  },
  "Red Hat Enterprise Linux-9": {
    "package_manager": "rpm-list",
    "constraints": [
      {
        "release": "9",
        "pkgs": [
          {"reference": "compat-openssl11"}
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
};

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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