The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2018:3158 advisory.

    The System Security Services Daemon (SSSD) service provides a set of daemons to manage access to remote     directories and authentication mechanisms. It also provides the Name Service Switch (NSS) and the     Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) interfaces toward the system, and a pluggable back-end system to     connect to multiple different account sources.

    The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: sssd (1.16.2). (BZ#1558498)

    Security Fix(es):

    * sssd: information leak from the sssd-sudo responder (CVE-2018-10852)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related     information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

    This issue was discovered by Jakub Hrozek (Red Hat).

    Additional Changes:

    For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Release Notes     linked from 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.

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RHEL 7 : sssd (RHSA-2018:3158)

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