RHEL 7 : librelp (RHSA-2018:1223)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 109337

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2018:1223 advisory.

- librelp: Stack-based buffer overflow in relpTcpChkPeerName function in src/tcp.c (CVE-2018-1000140)

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 librelp package based on the guidance in RHSA-2018:1223.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?c6d00adc

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1223

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1560084

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 109337

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2018-1223.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/25/2018

Updated: 10/24/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-1000140

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:librelp-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:librelp, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/24/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/23/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1000140

CWE: 121

IAVA: 2018-A-0202

RHSA: 2018:1223