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Oracle Linux 8 : WALinuxAgent (ELSA-2019-1527)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 127593

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2019-1527 advisory.

 [2.2.32-1.0.1.el8_0.1]
 - Add oracle support to fix waagent.service build issue

 [2.2.32-1.el8_0.1]
 - wla-Add-fixes-for-handling-swap-file-and-other-nit-fixes.patch [bz#1711338]
 - Resolves: bz#1711338 (CVE-2019-0804 WALinuxAgent: swapfile created with weak permissions [rhel-8])

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 WALinuxAgent package.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2019-1527.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 127593

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2019-1527.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

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: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:walinuxagent, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:8

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/1/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/9/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-0804

RHSA: 2019:1527