RHEL 8 : pacemaker (RHSA-2019:1279)

high Nessus Plugin ID 125446

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for pacemaker.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:1279 advisory.

The Pacemaker cluster resource manager is a collection of technologies working together to maintain data integrity and application availability in the event of failures.

Security Fix(es):

* pacemaker: Insufficient local IPC client-server authentication on the client's side can lead to local privesc (CVE-2018-16877)

* pacemaker: Insufficient verification inflicted preference of uncontrolled processes can lead to DoS (CVE-2018-16878)

* pacemaker: Information disclosure through use-after-free (CVE-2019-3885)

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

Bug Fix(es):

* Interrupted live migration will get full start rather than completed migration (BZ#1695247)

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 pacemaker package based on the guidance in RHSA-2019:1279.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 125446

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2019-1279.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 5/28/2019

Updated: 11/6/2024

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: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

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-2019-3885

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-16877

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pacemaker-cts, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pacemaker-schemas, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pacemaker-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pacemaker-libs-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pacemaker-doc, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pacemaker-cluster-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pacemaker-nagios-plugins-metadata, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pacemaker-cli, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pacemaker-remote, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pacemaker

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: 5/27/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/18/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-16877, CVE-2018-16878, CVE-2019-3885

CWE: 287, 400, 416

RHSA: 2019:1279

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