RHEL 7 : Red Hat Ceph Storage (RHSA-2016:2815)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 110330

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

An update is now available for Red Hat Ceph Storage 2.1 that fix one security issue, multiple bugs, and add various enhancements. This erratum is applicable for Red Hat Ceph Storage that runs on RHEL 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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.

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.

The following packages have been upgraded to a newer upstream version:
ceph (10.2.3), ceph-deploy (1.5.36), calamari-server (1.4.9), nfs-ganesha (2.4.0), ceph-iscsi-config (1.5), libntirpc (1.4.1), ceph-iscsi-tools (1.1). (BZ# 1340004, BZ#1349999)

Security Fix(es) :

* A flaw was found in the way Ceph Object Gateway handles POST object requests. An authenticated attacker could launch a denial of service attack by sending null or specially crafted POST object requests.
(CVE-2016-8626)

Bug Fix(es) and Enhancement(s) :

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Ceph Storage 2.1 Release Notes available at :

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en/red-hat-ceph-storage/2.1/si ngle/ release-notes/

All users of Red Hat Ceph Storage are advised to upgrade to these updated packages.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:2815

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-8626

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 110330

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2016-2815.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/6/2018

Updated: 9/25/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-8626

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/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:ceph-iscsi-tools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:librgw2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ceph-iscsi-config, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nfs-ganesha-rgw, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libntirpc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:librbd1-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-rbd, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libcephfs1-devel, 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:python-cephfs, 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:libcephfs1, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rbd-mirror, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:librados2-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ceph-deploy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nfs-ganesha, 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:nfs-ganesha-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libntirpc-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ceph-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:librgw2-devel

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/17/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/31/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-8626

RHSA: 2016:2815