keepalived 2.0.8 didn't check for pathnames with symlinks when writing data to a temporary file upon a call to PrintData or PrintStats. This allowed local users to overwrite arbitrary files if fs.protected_symlinks is set to 0, as demonstrated by a symlink from /tmp/keepalived.data or /tmp/keepalived.stats to /etc/passwd.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - keepalived: Heap-based buffer overflow when parsing HTTP status codes allows for denial of service or     possibly arbitrary code execution (CVE-2018-19115)

  - keepalived 2.0.8 didn't check for pathnames with symlinks when writing data to a temporary file upon a     call to PrintData or PrintStats. This allowed local users to overwrite arbitrary files if     fs.protected_symlinks is set to 0, as demonstrated by a symlink from /tmp/keepalived.data or     /tmp/keepalived.stats to /etc/passwd. (CVE-2018-19044)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

This plugin has been deprecated as it does not adhere to established standards for this style of check.

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2019-2285 advisory.

    [1.3.5-16]
    - Rework previous misc_script/vrrp_script patch (#1667292)

    [1.3.5-15]
    - Rework previous checker comparison patch (#1715308)

    [1.3.5-14]
    - Make checker variables non global (#1715308)

    [1.3.5-13]
    - Fix comparison of checkers on reload (#1715308)

    [1.3.5-12]
    - Fix build errors (#1678480)

    [1.3.5-11]
    - Fix problems with health checks & real servers after reload/restart (#1678480)

    [1.3.5-10]
    - Fix vrrp_script and check_misc scripts of type '</dev/tcp/127.0.0.1/80' (#1667292)

    [1.3.5-9]
    - Fix improper pathname validation (#1654301)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

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

According to the version of the keepalived package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

  - keepalived 2.0.8 didn't check for pathnames with     symlinks when writing data to a temporary file upon a     call to PrintData or PrintStats. This allowed local     users to overwrite arbitrary files if     fs.protected_symlinks is set to 0, as demonstrated by a     symlink from /tmp/keepalived.data or     /tmp/keepalived.stats to /etc/passwd.(CVE-2018-19044)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The version of keepalived installed on the remote host is prior to 1.2.13-8.5. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS-2020-1414 advisory.

    keepalived 2.0.8 didn't check for pathnames with symlinks when writing data to a temporary file upon a     call to PrintData or PrintStats. This allowed local users to overwrite arbitrary files if     fs.protected_symlinks is set to 0, as demonstrated by a symlink from /tmp/keepalived.data or     /tmp/keepalived.stats to /etc/passwd. (CVE-2018-19044)



Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

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

According to the version of the keepalived package installed, the EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

  - keepalived 2.0.8 didn't check for pathnames with     symlinks when writing data to a temporary file upon a     call to PrintData or PrintStats. This allowed local     users to overwrite arbitrary files if     fs.protected_symlinks is set to 0, as demonstrated by a     symlink from /tmp/keepalived.data or     /tmp/keepalived.stats to /etc/passwd.(CVE-2018-19044)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

According to the versions of the keepalived package installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - keepalived 2.0.8 didn't check for pathnames with     symlinks when writing data to a temporary file upon a     call to PrintData or PrintStats. This allowed local     users to overwrite arbitrary files if     fs.protected_symlinks is set to 0, as demonstrated by a     symlink from /tmp/keepalived.data or     /tmp/keepalived.stats to /etc/passwd.(CVE-2018-19044)

  - keepalived before 2.0.7 has a heap-based buffer     overflow when parsing HTTP status codes resulting in     DoS or possibly unspecified other impact, because     extract_status_code in lib/html.c has no validation of     the status code and instead writes an unlimited amount     of data to the heap.(CVE-2018-19115)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

According to the versions of the keepalived package installed, the EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - keepalived 2.0.8 didn't check for pathnames with     symlinks when writing data to a temporary file upon a     call to PrintData or PrintStats. This allowed local     users to overwrite arbitrary files if     fs.protected_symlinks is set to 0, as demonstrated by a     symlink from /tmp/keepalived.data or     /tmp/keepalived.stats to /etc/passwd.(CVE-2018-19044)

  - keepalived 2.0.8 didn't check for existing plain files     when writing data to a temporary file upon a call to     PrintData or PrintStats. If a local attacker had     previously created a file with the expected name (e.g.,     /tmp/keepalived.data or /tmp/keepalived.stats), with     read access for the attacker and write access for the     keepalived process, then this potentially leaked     sensitive information.(CVE-2018-19046)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version CORE 5.05 / MAIN 5.05, has keepalived packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability:

  - keepalived 2.0.8 didn't check for pathnames with     symlinks when writing data to a temporary file upon a     call to PrintData or PrintStats. This allowed local     users to overwrite arbitrary files if     fs.protected_symlinks is set to 0, as demonstrated by a     symlink from /tmp/keepalived.data or     /tmp/keepalived.stats to /etc/passwd. (CVE-2018-19044)

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

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version CORE 5.04 / MAIN 5.04, has keepalived packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability:

  - keepalived 2.0.8 didn't check for pathnames with     symlinks when writing data to a temporary file upon a     call to PrintData or PrintStats. This allowed local     users to overwrite arbitrary files if     fs.protected_symlinks is set to 0, as demonstrated by a     symlink from /tmp/keepalived.data or     /tmp/keepalived.stats to /etc/passwd. (CVE-2018-19044)

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

keepalived 2.0.8 didn't check for pathnames with symlinks when writing data to a temporary file upon a call to PrintData or PrintStats. This allowed local users to overwrite arbitrary files if fs.protected_symlinks is set to 0, as demonstrated by a symlink from /tmp/keepalived.data or /tmp/keepalived.stats to /etc/passwd.(CVE-2018-19044)

An update for keepalived 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.

The keepalived utility provides simple and robust facilities for load balancing and high availability. The load balancing framework relies on the well-known and widely used IP Virtual Server (IPVS) kernel module providing layer-4 (transport layer) load balancing. Keepalived implements a set of checkers to dynamically and adaptively maintain and manage a load balanced server pool according to the health of the servers. Keepalived also implements the Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRPv2) to achieve high availability with director failover.

Security Fix(es) :

* keepalived: Improper pathname validation allows for overwrite of arbitrary filenames via symlinks (CVE-2018-19044)

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.

Security Fix(es) :

  - keepalived: Improper pathname validation allows for     overwrite of arbitrary filenames via symlinks     (CVE-2018-19044)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2019:2285 advisory.

    The keepalived utility provides simple and robust facilities for load balancing and high availability. The     load balancing framework relies on the well-known and widely used IP Virtual Server (IPVS) kernel module     providing layer-4 (transport layer) load balancing. Keepalived implements a set of checkers to dynamically     and adaptively maintain and manage a load balanced server pool according to the health of the servers.
    Keepalived also implements the Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRPv2) to achieve high availability     with director failover.

    Security Fix(es):

    * keepalived: Improper pathname validation allows for overwrite of arbitrary filenames via symlinks     (CVE-2018-19044)

    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.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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

An update of the keepalived package has been released.

This update for keepalived to version 2.0.10 fixes the following issues :

Security issues fixed (bsc#1015141) :

  - CVE-2018-19044: Fixed a check for pathnames with     symlinks when writing data to a temporary file upon a     call to PrintData or PrintStats

  - CVE-2018-19045: Fixed mode when creating new temporary     files upon a call to PrintData or PrintStats

  - CVE-2018-19046: Fixed a check for existing plain files     when writing data to a temporary file upon a call to     PrintData or PrintStats

Non-security issues fixed :

  - Replace references to /var/adm/fillup-templates with new     %_fillupdir macro (boo#1069468)

  - Use getaddrinfo instead of gethostbyname to workaround     glibc gethostbyname function buffer overflow     (bsc#949238)

For the full list of changes refer to:
http://www.keepalived.org/changelog.html

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201903-01 (Keepalived: Multiple vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in keepalived. Please       review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
  Impact :

    A remote attacker could send a specially crafted request possibly       resulting in a Denial of Service condition. A local attacker could       perform symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges       of the user running the application.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

Security fix for CVE-2018-19044, CVE-2018-19045, CVE-2018-19046, CVE-2018-19115

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
199776	RHEL 6 : keepalived (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
195823	RHEL 6 : keepalived (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
180873	Oracle Linux 7 : keepalived (ELSA-2019-2285)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	medium
140890	EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : keepalived (EulerOS-SA-2020-2123)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
139548	Amazon Linux AMI : keepalived (ALAS-2020-1414)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	medium
136264	EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 3.0.2.0 : keepalived (EulerOS-SA-2020-1561)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
135655	EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.2.2 : keepalived (EulerOS-SA-2020-1493)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	critical
135144	EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 3.0.6.0 : keepalived (EulerOS-SA-2020-1357)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
133991	EulerOS 2.0 SP8 : keepalived (EulerOS-SA-2020-1157)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
132488	NewStart CGSL CORE 5.05 / MAIN 5.05 : keepalived Vulnerability (NS-SA-2019-0240)	Nessus	NewStart CGSL Local Security Checks	medium
132359	EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : keepalived (EulerOS-SA-2019-2692)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
131407	NewStart CGSL CORE 5.04 / MAIN 5.04 : keepalived Vulnerability (NS-SA-2019-0219)	Nessus	NewStart CGSL Local Security Checks	medium
130220	Amazon Linux 2 : keepalived (ALAS-2019-1323)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	medium
128384	CentOS 7 : keepalived (CESA-2019:2285)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	medium
128225	Scientific Linux Security Update : keepalived on SL7.x x86_64 (20190806)	Nessus	Scientific Linux Local Security Checks	medium
127706	RHEL 7 : keepalived (RHSA-2019:2285)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
126112	Photon OS 3.0: Keepalived PHSA-2019-3.0-0015	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	medium
123152	openSUSE Security Update : keepalived (openSUSE-2019-1008)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
122920	Photon OS 1.0: Keepalived PHSA-2019-1.0-0212	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	medium
122916	Photon OS 2.0: Keepalived PHSA-2019-2.0-0134	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	medium
122729	GLSA-201903-01 : Keepalived: Multiple vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	critical
120373	Fedora 29 : keepalived (2018-3fbc181b3e)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical
119854	openSUSE Security Update : keepalived (openSUSE-2018-1575)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high

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