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CentOS 7 : dhcp (CESA-2018:1453)

high Nessus Plugin ID 109814

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Synopsis

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

Description

An update for dhcp is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical. 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 Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is a protocol that allows individual devices on an IP network to get their own network configuration information, including an IP address, a subnet mask, and a broadcast address. The dhcp packages provide a relay agent and ISC DHCP service required to enable and administer DHCP on a network.

Security Fix(es) :

* A command injection flaw was found in the NetworkManager integration script included in the DHCP client packages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. A malicious DHCP server, or an attacker on the local network able to spoof DHCP responses, could use this flaw to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges on systems using NetworkManager and configured to obtain network configuration using the DHCP protocol.
(CVE-2018-1111)

Red Hat would like to thank Felix Wilhelm (Google Security Team) for reporting this issue.

Solution

Update the affected dhcp packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?9178ebc5

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 109814

File Name: centos_RHSA-2018-1453.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/16/2018

Updated: 12/31/2019

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.9

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-1111

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:dhclient, cpe:/o:centos:centos:7, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:dhcp-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:dhcp-common, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:dhcp-libs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:dhcp

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/15/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/17/2018

Exploitable With

Metasploit (DHCP Client Command Injection (DynoRoot))

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1111

IAVA: 2018-A-0162

RHSA: 2018:1453