RHEL 7 : ceph (RHSA-2018:0546)

high Nessus Plugin ID 108480

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2018:0546 advisory.

Red Hat Ceph Storage is a scalable, open, software-defined storage platform that combines the most stable version of the Ceph storage system with a Ceph management platform, deployment utilities, and support services.

Security Fix(es):

* ceph: Unauthenticated malformed HTTP requests handled by rgw_civetweb.cc:RGW::init_env() can lead to denial of service (CVE-2018-7262)

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.

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.

Solution

Update the RHEL ceph package based on the guidance in RHSA-2018:0546.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?08814da5

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0546

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1546610

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 108480

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2018-0546.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/20/2018

Updated: 5/29/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-7262

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:librgw2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libradosstriper1, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ceph-osd, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ceph-mgr, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:librgw-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:librados-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:librbd-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ceph-test, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-rgw, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-rbd, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ceph-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ceph-mds, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ceph-radosgw, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:librados2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libcephfs2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ceph, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:librbd1, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ceph-base, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ceph-fuse, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rbd-mirror, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-rados, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ceph-selinux, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ceph-mon, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libcephfs-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-cephfs

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/15/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/19/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-7262

CWE: 476

RHSA: 2018:0546