SB2022112343 - SUSE update for rustup



SB2022112343 - SUSE update for rustup

Published: November 23, 2022

Security Bulletin ID SB2022112343
Severity
High
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 2
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Code execution

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Race condition (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-45710)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the affected application.

The vulnerability exists due to a race condition. A remote attacker can exploit the race and execute arbitrary code on the system.


2) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-24713)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (ReDoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due regex for Rust does not properly control consumption of internal resources when parsing untrusted input. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) attack.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.