CentOS 7 : sos-collector (CESA-2018:3663)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 119663

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.

Description

An update for sos-collector is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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.

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).

Solution

Update the affected sos-collector package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 119663

File Name: centos_RHSA-2018-3663.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: CentOS Local Security Checks

Published: 12/14/2018

Updated: 7/16/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

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: cpe:/o:centos:centos:7, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:sos-collector

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/13/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/27/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-14650

RHSA: 2018:3663

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