RHEL 8 : git-lfs (RHSA-2022:7129)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 166480

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for git-lfs.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:7129 advisory.

- golang.org/x/text: Panic in language.ParseAcceptLanguage while parsing -u- extension (CVE-2020-28851)

- golang.org/x/text: Panic in language.ParseAcceptLanguage while processing bcp47 tag (CVE-2020-28852)

- golang: net/http: improper sanitization of Transfer-Encoding header (CVE-2022-1705)

- golang: net/http: handle server errors after sending GOAWAY (CVE-2022-27664)

- golang: io/fs: stack exhaustion in Glob (CVE-2022-30630)

- golang: path/filepath: stack exhaustion in Glob (CVE-2022-30632)

- golang: encoding/gob: stack exhaustion in Decoder.Decode (CVE-2022-30635)

- golang: net/http/httputil: NewSingleHostReverseProxy - omit X-Forwarded-For not working (CVE-2022-32148)

- golang: math/big: decoding big.Float and big.Rat types can panic if the encoded message is too short, potentially allowing a denial of service (CVE-2022-32189)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL git-lfs package based on the guidance in RHSA-2022:7129.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?96fefc8a

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:7129

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1913333

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1913338

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2107371

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2107374

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2107383

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2107386

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2107388

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2113814

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2124669

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 166480

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-7129.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/25/2022

Updated: 4/28/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-28852

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-32148

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:git-lfs

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/25/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/3/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-28851, CVE-2020-28852, CVE-2022-1705, CVE-2022-27664, CVE-2022-30630, CVE-2022-30632, CVE-2022-30635, CVE-2022-32148, CVE-2022-32189

CWE: 129, 1325, 200, 400, 444

RHSA: 2022:7129