RHEL 7 : sssd (RHSA-2019:2177)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 127691

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:2177 advisory.

The System Security Services Daemon (SSSD) service provides a set of daemons to manage access to remote directories and authentication mechanisms. It also provides the Name Service Switch (NSS) and the Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) interfaces toward the system, and a pluggable back-end system to connect to multiple different account sources.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: sssd (1.16.4). (BZ#1658994)

Security Fix(es):

* sssd: fallback_homedir returns '/' for empty home directories in passwd file (CVE-2019-3811)

* sssd: improper implementation of GPOs due to too restrictive permissions (CVE-2018-16838)

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.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Release Notes linked from 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 these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 127691

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2019-2177.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 8/12/2019

Updated: 11/6/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-16838

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sssd-common-pac, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sssd-tools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libsss_certmap-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libsss_nss_idmap-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sssd-krb5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-sss-murmur, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sssd-ad, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sssd-client, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sssd-dbus, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libsss_simpleifp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sssd-kcm, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libsss_idmap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sssd-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sssd-ipa, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libsss_idmap-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-libsss_nss_idmap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-libipa_hbac, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sssd-libwbclient, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libipa_hbac-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libsss_simpleifp-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-sss, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libsss_sudo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sssd-proxy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libsss_certmap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libsss_nss_idmap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sssd, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sssd-libwbclient-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sssd-ldap, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-sssdconfig, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libipa_hbac, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sssd-winbind-idmap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sssd-polkit-rules, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sssd-krb5-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libsss_autofs

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: 8/6/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/15/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-16838, CVE-2019-3811

CWE: 200, 269

RHSA: 2019:2177

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