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RHEL 8 : WALinuxAgent (RHSA-2019:1527)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 126029

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for WALinuxAgent.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2019:1527 advisory.

 The Windows Azure Linux Agent supports provisioning and running Linux virtual machines in the Microsoft Windows Azure cloud.

 Security Fix(es):

 * WALinuxAgent: swapfile created with weak permissions (CVE-2019-0804)

 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.

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 WALinuxAgent package based on the guidance in RHSA-2019:1527.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?4f568dcc

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1527

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1684181

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 126029

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2019-1527.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/19/2019

Updated: 11/6/2024

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: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-0804

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:walinuxagent

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: 6/18/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/9/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-0804

CWE: 732

RHSA: 2019:1527