RHEL 6 : krb5-appl (RHSA-2020:1349)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 135239

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for krb5-appl.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2020:1349 advisory.

The krb5-appl packages contain Kerberos-aware versions of telnet, ftp, rsh, and rlogin clients and servers. Kerberos is a network authentication system which allows clients and servers to authenticate to each other using symmetric encryption and trusted third-party, the Key Distribution Center (KDC).

Security Fix(es):

* telnet-server: no bounds checks in nextitem() function allows to remotely execute arbitrary code (CVE-2020-10188)

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.

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 krb5-appl package based on the guidance in RHSA-2020:1349.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?f22addf1

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1349

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1811673

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 135239

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-1349.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/7/2020

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: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-10188

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: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:krb5-appl-servers, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:krb5-appl, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/7/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/6/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-10188

CWE: 119

RHSA: 2020:1349