RHEL 7 : libqb (RHSA-2020:1189)

high Nessus Plugin ID 135067

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2020:1189 advisory.

The libqb packages provide a library with the primary purpose of providing high performance client/server reusable features, such as high performance logging, tracing, inter-process communication, and polling.

Security Fix(es):

* libqb: Insecure treatment of IPC (temporary) files (CVE-2019-12779)

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 7.8 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.

Solution

Update the RHEL libqb package based on the guidance in RHSA-2020:1189.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?afba0e17

http://www.nessus.org/u?c82bd31d

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1189

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1695948

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 135067

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-1189.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/1/2020

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.6

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-12779

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libqb, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libqb-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7

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: 3/31/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/7/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-12779

BID: 108691

CWE: 377

RHSA: 2020:1189