RHEL 8 : bind (RHSA-2023:7177)

"The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2023:7177 advisory. The Berkeley Internet Name Domain BIND is an implementation of the Domain Name System DNS protocols. BIND includes a DNS server named %NASLMINLEVEL...

Fedora 38 : python-pillow (2023-1a120657f9)

The remote Fedora 38 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-1a120657f9 advisory. Update to 9.5.0, backport fix for CVE-2023-44271. Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Note that...

The vulnerability of the DNS BIND server, related to the allocation of unlimited memory, allows attackers to cause service failures.

The vulnerability of the DNS BIND server is related to the allocation of unlimited memory. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a remote attacker to cause service interruptions...

CLSA-2023-1699380962 Fix CVE(s): CVE-2022-48063

SECURITY UPDATE: fix an attempt to allocate an unreasonably large amount of memory when parsing a corrupt ELF file - debian/patches/CVE-2022-48063.patch: Check for excessively large sections - CVE-2022-48063...

CLSA-2023-1699380309 Fix CVE(s): CVE-2022-48063

SECURITY UPDATE: fix an attempt to allocate an unreasonably large amount of memory when parsing a corrupt ELF file - debian/patches/CVE-2022-48063.patch: Check for excessively large sections - CVE-2022-48063...

edk2: Function GetEfiGlobalVariable2() return value not checked in DxeImageVerificationHandler()

REJECTED CVE A secure boot bypass vulnerability was found in EDK2 due to the lack of proper return value checks in the GetEfiGlobalVariable2 function. The API may fail if functions like AllocatePool or gRT-GetVariable fail. Without verifying the return value, an attacker could cause the API to...

kernel: platform/x86/amd: pmc: Fix memory leak in amd_pmc_stb_debugfs_open_v2()

A memory leak was found in the AMD PMC driver's STB debugfs interface. When amdpmcsendcmd fails, the allocated buffer is not freed, causing memory to leak on each failed operation...

kernel: scsi: lpfc: Check kzalloc() in lpfc_sli4_cgn_params_read()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: lpfc: Check kzalloc in lpfcsli4cgnparamsread If kzalloc fails in lpfcsli4cgnparamsread, then we rely on lpfcreadobject's routine to NULL check pdata. Currently, an early return error is thrown from lpfcreadobject to protect...

kernel: selinux: enable use of both GFP_KERNEL and GFP_ATOMIC in convert_context()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: selinux: enable use of both GFPKERNEL and GFPATOMIC in convertcontext The following warning was triggered on a hardware environment: SELinux: Converting 162 SID table entries... BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context ...

kernel: irqchip/gic-v3: Fix error handling in gic_populate_ppi_partitions

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: irqchip/gic-v3: Fix error handling in gicpopulateppipartitions ofgetchildbyname returns a node pointer with refcount incremented, we should use ofnodeput on it when not need anymore. When kcalloc fails, it missing ofnodeput and...

kernel: io_uring/rw: defer fsnotify calls to task context

A locking context violation was found in the Linux kernel's iouring subsystem. The fsnotify calls were being made directly from kiocb completion context, which can execute in soft or hard IRQ context. This causes lockdep warnings when fsnotify attempts memory allocation with GFPKERNEL flags, whic...

libssh: authorization bypass in pki_verify_data_signature

A vulnerability was found in libssh, where the authentication check of the connecting client can be bypassed in thepkiverifydatasignature function in memory allocation problems. This issue may happen if there is insufficient memory or the memory usage is limited. The problem is caused by the retu...

ALSA-2023:6474 Moderate: podman security, bug fix, and enhancement update

The podman tool manages pods, container images, and containers. It is part of the libpod library, which is for applications that use container pods. Container pods is a concept in Kubernetes. Security Fixes: golang: html/template: improper handling of JavaScript whitespace CVE-2023-24540 net/http...

RHEL 9 : libssh (RHSA-2023:6643)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:6643 advisory. libssh is a library which implements the SSH protocol. It can be used to implement client and server applications. Security Fixes: libssh:...

RHEL 9 : podman (RHSA-2023:6474)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:6474 advisory. The podman tool manages pods, container images, and containers. It is part of the libpod library, which is for applications that use contain...

Rocky Linux 8 : redis:6 (RLSA-2021:3945)

The remote Rocky Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2021:3945 advisory. - Redis is an open source, in-memory database that persists on disk. In affected versions specially crafted Lua scripts executing in Redis can cause the...

Rocky Linux 9 : go-toolset and golang (RLSA-2023:0328)

The remote Rocky Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2023:0328 advisory. - Reader.Read does not set a limit on the maximum size of file headers. A maliciously crafted archive could cause Read to allocate unbounded amounts of...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

LibTIFF is vulnerable to Denial of Service. The vulnerability is due to mishandling memory allocation for short files in the TIFFReadDirEntryArray function. This can potentially lead to an allocation failure and application crash...

Rocky Linux 8 : expat (RLSA-2022:0951)

The remote Rocky Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2022:0951 advisory. - In Expat aka libexpat before 2.4.3, a left shift by 29 or more places in the storeAtts function in xmlparse.c can lead to realloc misbehavior e.g.,...

Rocky Linux 8 : tcpdump (RLSA-2021:4236)

The remote Rocky Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RLSA-2021:4236 advisory. - The ppp decapsulator in tcpdump 4.9.3 can be convinced to allocate a large amount of memory. CVE-2020-8037 Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but h...