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CentOS 8 : libxml2 (CESA-2024:0119)

2024-01-1000:00:00
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8
centos 8
libxml2
vulnerability
out-of-bounds read
denial of service
cve-2023-39615
sax2
nessus scanner

6.5 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

6.5 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0005 Low

EPSS

Percentile

17.0%

The remote CentOS Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CESA-2024:0119 advisory.

  • Xmlsoft Libxml2 v2.11.0 was discovered to contain an out-of-bounds read via the xmlSAX2StartElement() function at /libxml2/SAX2.c. This vulnerability allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via supplying a crafted XML file. NOTE: the vendor’s position is that the product does not support the legacy SAX1 interface with custom callbacks; there is a crash even without crafted input. (CVE-2023-39615)

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 package checks in this plugin were extracted from
# Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2024:0119. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Red Hat, Inc.
##

include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(187873);
  script_version("1.1");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2024/02/08");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2023-39615");
  script_xref(name:"RHSA", value:"2024:0119");

  script_name(english:"CentOS 8 : libxml2 (CESA-2024:0119)");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote CentOS Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the
CESA-2024:0119 advisory.

  - Xmlsoft Libxml2 v2.11.0 was discovered to contain an out-of-bounds read via the xmlSAX2StartElement()
    function at /libxml2/SAX2.c. This vulnerability allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via
    supplying a crafted XML file. NOTE: the vendor's position is that the product does not support the legacy
    SAX1 interface with custom callbacks; there is a crash even without crafted input. (CVE-2023-39615)

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://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0119");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected libxml2, libxml2-devel and / or python3-libxml2 packages.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C");
  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:R/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-2023-39615");

  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:"2023/08/29");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2024/01/10");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2024/01/10");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:centos:centos:8-stream");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libxml2");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libxml2-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python3-libxml2");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

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

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2024 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/CentOS/release", "Host/CentOS/rpm-list", "Host/cpu");

  exit(0);
}


include('rpm.inc');
include('rhel.inc');

if (!get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled')) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var os_release = get_kb_item('Host/CentOS/release');
if (isnull(os_release) || 'CentOS' >!< os_release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'CentOS');
var os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "CentOS(?: Stream)?(?: Linux)? release ([0-9]+)", string:os_release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, 'CentOS');
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if ('CentOS Stream' >!< os_release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'CentOS 8-Stream');
if (!rhel_check_release(operator: 'ge', os_version: os_ver, rhel_version: '8')) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'CentOS 8.x', 'CentOS ' + os_ver);

if (!get_kb_item('Host/CentOS/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 && 'ppc' >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'CentOS', cpu);

var pkgs = [
    {'reference':'libxml2-2.9.7-18.el8', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'libxml2-2.9.7-18.el8', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'libxml2-devel-2.9.7-18.el8', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'libxml2-devel-2.9.7-18.el8', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'python3-libxml2-2.9.7-18.el8', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'python3-libxml2-2.9.7-18.el8', '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;
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['reference'])) reference = package_array['reference'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['release'])) _release = 'CentOS-' + 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 (reference && _release) {
    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, 'libxml2 / libxml2-devel / python3-libxml2');
}
VendorProductVersionCPE
centoscentos8-streamcpe:/o:centos:centos:8-stream
centoscentoslibxml2p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libxml2
centoscentoslibxml2-develp-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libxml2-devel
centoscentospython3-libxml2p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python3-libxml2

6.5 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

6.5 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0005 Low

EPSS

Percentile

17.0%