It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2022-2023-264 advisory.
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 descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Amazon Linux 2022 Security Advisory ALAS2022-2023-264.
##
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(170623);
script_version("1.1");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2023/09/06");
script_cve_id("CVE-2022-2309");
script_name(english:"Amazon Linux 2022 : (ALAS2022-2023-264)");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Amazon Linux 2022 host is missing a security update.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2022-2023-264 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://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2022/ALAS-2023-264.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-2309.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Run 'dnf update python-lxml' to update your system.");
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:"2023/01/20");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2023/01/25");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:python-lxml-debugsource");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:python3-lxml");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:python3-lxml-debuginfo");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2022");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"Amazon 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/AmazonLinux/release", "Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list");
exit(0);
}
include("rpm.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var alas_release = get_kb_item("Host/AmazonLinux/release");
if (isnull(alas_release) || !strlen(alas_release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Amazon Linux");
var os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "^AL(A|\d+|-\d+)", string:alas_release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Amazon Linux");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (os_ver != "-2022")
{
if (os_ver == 'A') os_ver = 'AMI';
audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Amazon Linux 2022", "Amazon Linux " + os_ver);
}
if (!get_kb_item("Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
var pkgs = [
{'reference':'python-lxml-debugsource-4.7.1-3.amzn2022', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL-2022', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python-lxml-debugsource-4.7.1-3.amzn2022', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'AL-2022', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python-lxml-debugsource-4.7.1-3.amzn2022', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL-2022', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python3-lxml-4.7.1-3.amzn2022', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL-2022', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python3-lxml-4.7.1-3.amzn2022', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'AL-2022', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python3-lxml-4.7.1-3.amzn2022', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL-2022', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python3-lxml-debuginfo-4.7.1-3.amzn2022', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL-2022', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python3-lxml-debuginfo-4.7.1-3.amzn2022', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'AL-2022', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python3-lxml-debuginfo-4.7.1-3.amzn2022', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL-2022', '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 = 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, "python-lxml-debugsource / python3-lxml / python3-lxml-debuginfo");
}