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CentOS 7 : rsyslog (CESA-2019:2110)

high Nessus Plugin ID 128353

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Synopsis

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

Description

An update for rsyslog 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 rsyslog packages provide an enhanced, multi-threaded syslog daemon. It supports MySQL, syslog/TCP, RFC 3195, permitted sender lists, filtering on any message part, and fine-grained control over output format.

Security Fix(es) :

* rsyslog: imptcp: integer overflow when Octet-Counted TCP Framing is enabled (CVE-2018-16881)

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 rsyslog packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?4931dbc8

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 128353

File Name: centos_RHSA-2019-2110.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: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-16881

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rsyslog-gssapi, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rsyslog-relp, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rsyslog-mmnormalize, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rsyslog-snmp, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rsyslog-crypto, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rsyslog, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rsyslog-udpspoof, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rsyslog-doc, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rsyslog-pgsql, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rsyslog-gnutls, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rsyslog-elasticsearch, cpe:/o:centos:centos:7, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rsyslog-mmjsonparse, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rsyslog-mmaudit, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rsyslog-kafka, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rsyslog-mysql, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rsyslog-mmkubernetes, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rsyslog-libdbi, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rsyslog-mmsnmptrapd

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: 1/25/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-16881

RHSA: 2019:2110