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Oracle Linux 8 : libxml2 (ELSA-2021-1597)

2021-05-2600:00:00
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6.4 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

6.5 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

LOW

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

LOW

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

7.7 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.003 Low

EPSS

Percentile

69.5%

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2021-1597 advisory.

  • GNOME project libxml2 v2.9.10 has a global buffer over-read vulnerability in xmlEncodeEntitiesInternal at libxml2/entities.c. The issue has been fixed in commit 50f06b3e. (CVE-2020-24977)

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 70300
##
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2021-1597.
##

include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(149943);
  script_version("1.3");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2023/12/28");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2020-24977");

  script_name(english:"Oracle Linux 8 : libxml2 (ELSA-2021-1597)");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the
ELSA-2021-1597 advisory.

  - GNOME project libxml2 v2.9.10 has a global buffer over-read vulnerability in xmlEncodeEntitiesInternal at
    libxml2/entities.c. The issue has been fixed in commit 50f06b3e. (CVE-2020-24977)

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://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2021-1597.html");
  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:P/I:N/A:P");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:F/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2020-24977");

  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:"2020/09/04");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2021/05/25");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2021/05/26");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:oracle:linux:8");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libxml2");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libxml2-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python3-libxml2");
  script_end_attributes();

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

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2021-2023 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

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

  exit(0);
}


include('audit.inc');
include('global_settings.inc');
include('rpm.inc');

if (!get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled')) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item('Host/OracleLinux')) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Oracle Linux');
release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release");
if (isnull(release) || !pregmatch(pattern: "Oracle (?:Linux Server|Enterprise Linux)", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Oracle Linux');
os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "Oracle (?:Linux Server|Enterprise Linux) .*release ([0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, 'Oracle Linux');
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^8([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Oracle Linux 8', 'Oracle Linux ' + os_ver);

if (!get_kb_item('Host/RedHat/rpm-list')) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

cpu = get_kb_item('Host/cpu');
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ('x86_64' >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && 'aarch64' >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'Oracle Linux', cpu);

pkgs = [
    {'reference':'libxml2-2.9.7-9.0.1.el8', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'libxml2-2.9.7-9.0.1.el8', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'libxml2-2.9.7-9.0.1.el8', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'libxml2-devel-2.9.7-9.0.1.el8', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'libxml2-devel-2.9.7-9.0.1.el8', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'libxml2-devel-2.9.7-9.0.1.el8', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'python3-libxml2-2.9.7-9.0.1.el8', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'python3-libxml2-2.9.7-9.0.1.el8', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE}
];

flag = 0;
foreach package_array ( pkgs ) {
  reference = NULL;
  release = NULL;
  sp = NULL;
  cpu = NULL;
  el_string = NULL;
  rpm_spec_vers_cmp = NULL;
  epoch = NULL;
  allowmaj = NULL;
  rpm_prefix = NULL;
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['reference'])) reference = package_array['reference'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['release'])) release = 'EL' + 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['rpm_prefix'])) rpm_prefix = package_array['rpm_prefix'];
  if (reference && release) {
    if (rpm_prefix) {
        if (rpm_exists(release:release, rpm:rpm_prefix) && 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++;
    } else {
        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
{
  tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'libxml2 / libxml2-devel / python3-libxml2');
}
VendorProductVersionCPE
oraclelinux8cpe:/o:oracle:linux:8
oraclelinuxlibxml2p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libxml2
oraclelinuxlibxml2-develp-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libxml2-devel
oraclelinuxpython3-libxml2p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python3-libxml2

6.4 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

6.5 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

LOW

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

LOW

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

7.7 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.003 Low

EPSS

Percentile

69.5%