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Oracle Linux 7 : quagga (ELSA-2018-0377)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 107079

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2018-0377 advisory.

 - Fixed CVE-2018-5379 - Double free vulnerability in bgpd when processing certain forms of UPDATE message allowing to crash or potentially execute arbitrary code

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.

Solution

Update the affected quagga, quagga-contrib and / or quagga-devel packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2018-0377.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 107079

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2018-0377.nasl

Version: 3.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/1/2018

Updated: 11/1/2024

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-5379

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:quagga-contrib, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:quagga-devel, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:7, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:quagga

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/28/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/19/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-5379

RHSA: 2018:0377