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CentOS 7 : systemd (CESA-2018:0260)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 106566

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

An update for systemd 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 systemd packages contain systemd, a system and service manager for Linux, compatible with the SysV and LSB init scripts. It provides aggressive parallelism capabilities, uses socket and D-Bus activation for starting services, offers on-demand starting of daemons, and keeps track of processes using Linux cgroups. In addition, it supports snapshotting and restoring of the system state, maintains mount and automount points, and implements an elaborate transactional dependency-based service control logic. It can also work as a drop-in replacement for sysvinit.

Security Fix(es) :

* A race condition was found in systemd. This could result in automount requests not being serviced and processes using them could hang, causing denial of service. (CVE-2018-1049)

Solution

Update the affected systemd packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?3333da49

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 106566

File Name: centos_RHSA-2018-0260.nasl

Version: 3.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/2/2018

Updated: 12/31/2019

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-1049

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:systemd-networkd, cpe:/o:centos:centos:7, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:systemd-resolved, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:systemd-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:systemd-journal-gateway, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:systemd-sysv, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libgudev1-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libgudev1, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:systemd-python, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:systemd-libs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:systemd

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/1/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/16/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1049

RHSA: 2018:0260