RHEL 7 : sos-collector (RHSA-2018:3663)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 119171

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for sos-collector.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2018:3663 advisory.

sos-collector is a utility that gathers sosreports from multi-node environments. sos-collector facilitates data collection for support cases and it can be run from either a node or from an administrator's local workstation that has network access to the environment.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: sos-collector (1.5). (BZ#1644776)

Security Fix(es):

* sos-collector: incorrect permissions set on newly created files (CVE-2018-14650)

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 Riccardo Schirone (Red Hat Product Security).

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.

Solution

Update the RHEL sos-collector package based on the guidance in RHSA-2018:3663.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 119171

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2018-3663.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 11/27/2018

Updated: 11/5/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 1.9

Temporal Score: 1.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-14650

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sos-collector, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/26/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/27/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-14650

CWE: 276

RHSA: 2018:3663

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