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RHEL 8 : dovecot (RHSA-2019:3467)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 130542

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for dovecot.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2019:3467 advisory.

 - dovecot: Improper certificate validation (CVE-2019-3814)

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 RHEL dovecot package based on the guidance in RHSA-2019:3467.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?13e97f10

http://www.nessus.org/u?b8d3b26b

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3467

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1673415

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 130542

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2019-3467.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/6/2019

Updated: 4/28/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-3814

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:dovecot, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:dovecot-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:dovecot-mysql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:dovecot-pgsql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:dovecot-pigeonhole, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8

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: 11/5/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/27/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-3814

CWE: 295

RHSA: 2019:3467