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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Ceph vulnerabilities (USN-4035-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 126255

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4035-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that Ceph incorrectly handled read only permissions. An authenticated attacker could use this issue to obtain dm-crypt encryption keys. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2018-14662)

 It was discovered that Ceph incorrectly handled certain OMAPs holding bucket indices. An authenticated attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2018-16846)

 It was discovered that Ceph incorrectly sanitized certain debug logs. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain encryption key information. This issue was only addressed in Ubuntu 18.10 and Ubuntu 19.04. (CVE-2018-16889)

 It was discovered that Ceph incorrectly handled certain civetweb requests. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to consume resources, leading to a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.10 and Ubuntu 19.04. (CVE-2019-3821)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu 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 affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4035-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 126255

File Name: ubuntu_USN-4035-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/26/2019

Updated: 8/27/2024

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: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-16889

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:rbd-fuse, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ceph, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:librados-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:rbd-mirror, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:librados2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libradosstriper1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcephfs-java, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:librbd1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:radosgw, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:rbd-nbd, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-rados, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ceph-mds, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-rbd, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ceph-test, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ceph-fuse, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:librgw2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:librbd-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libradosstriper-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-ceph, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ceph-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-cephfs, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcephfs-jni, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcephfs-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:librgw-dev, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ceph-resource-agents, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcephfs1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ceph-fs-common

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/25/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/15/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-14662, CVE-2018-16846, CVE-2018-16889, CVE-2019-3821

USN: 4035-1