RHEL 7 : rhvm-appliance (RHSA-2018:2643)

high Nessus Plugin ID 117324

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for rhvm-appliance.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:2643 advisory.

The RHV-M Virtual Appliance automates the process of installing and configuring the Red Hat Virtualization Manager. The appliance is available to download as an OVA file from the Customer Portal.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: rhvm-appliance (4.2). (BZ#1590658, BZ#1591095, BZ#1591096, BZ#1592655, BZ#1594636, BZ#1597534, BZ#1612683)

Red Hat would like to thank the PostgreSQL project for reporting CVE-2018-10915 and Ammarit Thongthua (Deloitte Thailand Pentest team) and Nattakit Intarasorn (Deloitte Thailand Pentest team) for reporting CVE-2018-1067. Upstream acknowledges Andrew Krasichkov as the original reporter of CVE-2018-10915.

Security fixes:

* vulnerability: wildfly-core: Path traversal can allow the extraction of .war archives to write arbitrary files (Zip Slip) (CVE-2018-10862)

* vulnerability: apache-cxf: TLS hostname verification does not work correctly with com.sun.net.ssl.* (CVE-2018-8039)

* vulnerability: postgresql: Certain host connection parameters defeat client-side security defenses (CVE-2018-10915)

* vulnerability: undertow: HTTP header injection using CRLF with UTF-8 Encoding (incomplete fix of ) (CVE-2018-1067, CVE-2016-4993)

* vulnerability: undertow: File descriptor leak caused by JarURLConnection.getLastModified() allows attacker to cause a denial of service (CVE-2018-1114)

* vulnerability: guava: Unbounded memory allocation in AtomicDoubleArray and CompoundOrdering classes allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CVE-2018-10237)

* vulnerability: bouncycastle: flaw in the low-level interface to RSA key pair generator (CVE-2018-1000180)

For more details about the security issues, including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE pages 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 these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL rhvm-appliance package based on the guidance in RHSA-2018:2643.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1595332

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1609891

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1616249

http://www.nessus.org/u?1ca8b8d4

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2643

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1550671

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1573045

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1573391

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1588306

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1593527

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 117324

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2018-2643.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/6/2018

Updated: 11/5/2024

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: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-8039

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/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:rhvm-appliance, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7

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: 9/4/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/26/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1000180, CVE-2018-10237, CVE-2018-1067, CVE-2018-10862, CVE-2018-10915, CVE-2018-1114, CVE-2018-8039

CWE: 113, 119, 22, 248, 325, 400, 89

RHSA: 2018:2643