Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Summary
Title libmspack security update
Informations
Name RHSA-2019:2049 First vendor Publication 2019-08-06
Vendor RedHat Last vendor Modification 2019-08-06
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision 01

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 4.3 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Problem Description:

An update for libmspack is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) - x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) - x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7) - x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7) - x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) - ppc64le, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

3. Description:

The libmspack packages contain a library providing compression and extraction of the Cabinet (CAB) file format used by Microsoft.

Security Fix(es):

* libmspack: Out-of-bounds write in mspack/cab.h (CVE-2018-18584)

* libmspack: chmd_read_headers() fails to reject filenames containing NULL bytes (CVE-2018-18585)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.

4. Solution:

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

1644214 - CVE-2018-18584 libmspack: Out-of-bounds write in mspack/cab.h 1644215 - CVE-2018-18585 libmspack: chmd_read_headers() fails to reject filenames containing NULL bytes

Original Source

Url : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019-2049.html

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
50 % CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write (CWE/SANS Top 25)
50 % CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 11
Application 5
Application 6
Application 1
Os 5
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1
Os 4

Snort® IPS/IDS

Date Description
2019-12-10 Libmspack cabd_sys_read_block off-by-one heap overflow attempt
RuleID : 52133 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-OTHER
2019-12-10 Libmspack cabd_sys_read_block off-by-one heap overflow attempt
RuleID : 52132 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-OTHER

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2019-01-03 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.
File : fedora_2018-a5953af115.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2019-01-03 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.
File : fedora_2018-cb337fb199.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-11-19 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.
File : fedora_2018-c73d257297.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-10-29 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-1555.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2020-03-19 13:18:50
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