CentOS 7 : sssd (CESA-2018:3158)

high Nessus Plugin ID 118997

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Synopsis

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

Description

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

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

Solution

Update the affected sssd packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 118997

File Name: centos_RHSA-2018-3158.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: CentOS Local Security Checks

Published: 11/16/2018

Updated: 4/8/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-10852

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libsss_simpleifp, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python-sss, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python-libipa_hbac, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:sssd-krb5-common, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libipa_hbac, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libsss_nss_idmap, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libsss_certmap-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:sssd-kcm, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python-libsss_nss_idmap, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:sssd-libwbclient, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libsss_certmap, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libsss_idmap-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:sssd-krb5, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libsss_idmap, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:sssd-polkit-rules, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:sssd, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libsss_simpleifp-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:sssd-common-pac, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:sssd-ipa, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:sssd-client, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:sssd-dbus, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libsss_nss_idmap-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:sssd-libwbclient-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:sssd-ad, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libipa_hbac-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python-sssdconfig, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:sssd-proxy, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:sssd-tools, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:sssd-common, cpe:/o:centos:centos:7, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libsss_autofs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:sssd-winbind-idmap, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:sssd-ldap, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python-sss-murmur, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libsss_sudo

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/15/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/26/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-10852

RHSA: 2018:3158

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