RHEL 8 : cyrus-imapd (RHSA-2019:1771)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 126709

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for cyrus-imapd.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2019:1771 advisory.

The cyrus-imapd packages contain a high-performance mail server with IMAP, POP3, NNTP, and SIEVE support.

Security Fix(es):

* cyrus-imapd: buffer overflow in CalDAV request handling triggered by a long iCalendar property name (CVE-2019-11356)

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 cyrus-imapd package based on the guidance in RHSA-2019:1771.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1771

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1717828

http://www.nessus.org/u?6df5fd0d

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 126709

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2019-1771.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/16/2019

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: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-11356

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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:cyrus-imapd, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cyrus-imapd-utils, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cyrus-imapd-vzic

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: 7/15/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/3/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-11356

CWE: 119

RHSA: 2019:1771