RHEL 7 : quagga (RHSA-2018:0377)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 107081

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for quagga.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2018:0377 advisory.

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

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 RHEL quagga package based on the guidance in RHSA-2018:0377.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?e50ead32

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0377

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1542985

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 107081

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2018-0377.nasl

Version: 3.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/1/2018

Updated: 4/27/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

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:redhat:enterprise_linux:quagga, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:quagga-contrib, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:quagga-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/28/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/19/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-5379

CWE: 416

RHSA: 2018:0377