RHEL 7 : systemd (RHSA-2020:1264)

high Nessus Plugin ID 135087

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for systemd.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:1264 advisory.

The systemd packages contain systemd, a system and service manager for Linux, compatible with the SysV and LSB init scripts. It provides aggressive parallelism capabilities, uses socket and D-Bus activation for starting services, offers on-demand starting of daemons, and keeps track of processes using Linux cgroups.
In addition, it supports snapshotting and restoring of the system state, maintains mount and automount points, and implements an elaborate transactional dependency-based service control logic. It can also work as a drop-in replacement for sysvinit.

Security Fix(es):

* systemd: line splitting via fgets() allows for state injection during daemon-reexec (CVE-2018-15686)

* systemd: out-of-bounds read when parsing a crafted syslog message (CVE-2018-16866)

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.

Bug Fix(es):

* Restarting systemd-journald to load new configurations causes other daemons stop working (BZ#1798160)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL systemd package based on the guidance in RHSA-2020:1264.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 135087

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-1264.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 4/1/2020

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-15686

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:systemd, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:systemd-sysv, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libgudev1-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:systemd-python, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:systemd-libs, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:7.5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:systemd-networkd, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libgudev1, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:systemd-resolved, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:systemd-journal-gateway, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:systemd-devel

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: 4/1/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/26/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-15686, CVE-2018-16866

BID: 105747, 106527

CWE: 20, 200

RHSA: 2020:1264

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