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Oracle Linux 8 : systemd (ELSA-2019-0990)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 127575

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2019-0990 advisory.

 [239-13.0.1.3]
 - fix _netdev is missing for iscsi entry in /etc/fstab ([email protected]) [Orabug: 25897792]
 - set RemoveIPC=no in logind.conf as default for OL7.2 [Orabug: 22224874]
 - allow dm remove ioctl to co-operate with UEK3 (Vaughan Cao) [Orabug: 18467469]
 - add hv dynamic memory support (Jerry Snitselaar) [Orabug: 18621475]

 [239-13.3]
 - rebuilt

 [239-13.2]
 - Refuse dbus message paths longer than BUS_PATH_SIZE_MAX limit. (#1678641)
 - Allocate temporary strings to hold dbus paths on the heap (#1678641)
 - sd-bus: if we receive an invalid dbus message, ignore and proceeed (#1678641)

 [239-13.1]
 - bus-socket: Fix line_begins() to accept word matching full string (#1692991)

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

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2019-0990.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 127575

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2019-0990.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/12/2019

Updated: 11/1/2024

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-6454

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:systemd-pam, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:systemd-journal-remote, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:systemd-container, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:systemd-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:systemd-udev, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:systemd-tests, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:systemd, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:systemd-libs

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/1/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/21/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-6454

RHSA: 2019:0990