RHEL 7 : udisks2 (RHSA-2019:2178)

high Nessus Plugin ID 127692

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2019:2178 advisory.

The Udisks project provides a daemon, tools, and libraries to access and manipulate disks, storage devices, and technologies.

Security Fix(es):

* udisks: Format string vulnerability in udisks_log in udiskslogging.c (CVE-2018-17336)

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 this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?0b03f3f5

http://www.nessus.org/u?cc7115e8

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2178

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1568269

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1632828

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1643350

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1672664

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 127692

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2019-2178.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/12/2019

Updated: 11/6/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-17336

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:udisks2-lsm, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:udisks2-iscsi, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:udisks2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:udisks2-lvm2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libudisks2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libudisks2-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/6/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/22/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-17336

CWE: 134

RHSA: 2019:2178