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CentOS 7 : fence-agents (CESA-2019:2037)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 128336

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

An update for fence-agents is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

The fence-agents packages provide a collection of scripts for handling remote power management for cluster devices. They allow failed or unreachable nodes to be forcibly restarted and removed from the cluster.

Security Fix(es) :

* fence-agents: mis-handling of non-ASCII characters in guest comment fields (CVE-2019-10153)

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.

Solution

Update the affected fence-agents packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?407d076f

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 128336

File Name: centos_RHSA-2019-2037.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/30/2019

Updated: 12/31/2019

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-10153

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:fence-agents-ifmib, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:fence-agents-apc-snmp, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:fence-agents-rhevm, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:fence-agents-vmware-rest, cpe:/o:centos:centos:7, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:fence-agents-virsh, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:fence-agents-sbd, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:fence-agents-ipmilan, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:fence-agents-redfish, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:fence-agents-amt-ws, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:fence-agents-bladecenter, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:fence-agents-wti, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:fence-agents-brocade, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:fence-agents-ilo-mp, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:fence-agents-heuristics-ping, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:fence-agents-rsa, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:fence-agents-vmware-soap, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:fence-agents-ibmblade, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:fence-agents-mpath, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:fence-agents-emerson, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:fence-agents-cisco-ucs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:fence-agents-aws, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:fence-agents-ilo2, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:fence-agents-cisco-mds, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:fence-agents-ilo-ssh, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:fence-agents-drac5, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:fence-agents-apc, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:fence-agents-kdump, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:fence-agents-aliyun, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:fence-agents-compute, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:fence-agents-hpblade, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:fence-agents-rsb, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:fence-agents-eaton-snmp, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:fence-agents-all, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:fence-agents-scsi, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:fence-agents-ilo-moonshot, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:fence-agents-azure-arm, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:fence-agents-gce, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:fence-agents-ipdu, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:fence-agents-common, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:fence-agents-eps, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:fence-agents-intelmodular

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/29/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/30/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-10153

RHSA: 2019:2037