The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2019:2285 advisory.

    The keepalived utility provides simple and robust facilities for load balancing and high availability. The     load balancing framework relies on the well-known and widely used IP Virtual Server (IPVS) kernel module     providing layer-4 (transport layer) load balancing. Keepalived implements a set of checkers to dynamically     and adaptively maintain and manage a load balanced server pool according to the health of the servers.
    Keepalived also implements the Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRPv2) to achieve high availability     with director failover.

    Security Fix(es):

    * keepalived: Improper pathname validation allows for overwrite of arbitrary filenames via symlinks     (CVE-2018-19044)

    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.

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RHEL 7 : keepalived (RHSA-2019:2285)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 127706

Version 1.6