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CentOS 7 : nbdkit (RHSA-2020:1167)

low Nessus Plugin ID 135348

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote CentOS Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2020:1167 advisory.

 - A denial of service vulnerability was discovered in nbdkit 1.12.7, 1.14.1 and 1.15.1. An attacker could connect to the nbdkit service and cause it to perform a large amount of work in initializing backend plugins, by simply opening a connection to the service. This vulnerability could cause resource consumption and degradation of service in nbdkit, depending on the plugins configured on the server-side.
 (CVE-2019-14850)

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 affected packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1167

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 135348

File Name: centos_RHSA-2020-1167.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/10/2020

Updated: 10/9/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.6

Temporal Score: 2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-14850

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.7

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:nbdkit-example-plugins, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:nbdkit-devel, cpe:/o:centos:centos:7, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:nbdkit-plugin-vddk, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:nbdkit, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:nbdkit-plugin-python-common, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:nbdkit-plugin-python2, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:nbdkit-basic-plugins

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/8/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-14850

RHSA: 2020:1167