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Fedora 31 : rsyslog (2019-ea7d5876a4)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 131206

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

rebase to upstream version 8.1911.0

------------------------------------------------- new modules available :

 - ClickHouse output

 - generic REST API http output

 - docker API input

 - misc. external program input (takes output of specified binary as log source)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected rsyslog package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-ea7d5876a4

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 131206

File Name: fedora_2019-ea7d5876a4.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/22/2019

Updated: 4/10/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-17042

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:31, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:rsyslog

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/22/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/30/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-17040, CVE-2019-17041, CVE-2019-17042