The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:1766 advisory.

    GNOME is the default desktop environment of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

    Security Fix(es):

    * LibRaw: stack-based buffer overflow in the parse_makernote function of dcraw_common.cpp (CVE-2018-20337)

    * gdm: lock screen bypass when timed login is enabled (CVE-2019-3825)

    * gvfs: mishandling of file ownership in daemon/gvfsbackendadmin.c (CVE-2019-12447)

    * gvfs: race condition in daemon/gvfsbackendadmin.c due to admin backend not implementing     query_info_on_read/write (CVE-2019-12448)

    * gvfs: mishandling of file's user and group ownership in daemon/gvfsbackendadmin.c due to unavailability     of root privileges (CVE-2019-12449)

    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 8.2 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 these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Detections

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RHEL 8 : GNOME (RHSA-2020:1766)

high Nessus Plugin ID 136113

Version 1.12

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Version 1.12 Nov 8, 2024, 2:25 AM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411080225
Version 1.11 Jun 3, 2024, 7:01 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202406031901
Version 1.10 Mar 14, 2024, 3:54 PM CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to "CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C". "CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C") Exploit attributes ("Exploit available" set to "True". "Exploitability ease" changed from "No known exploits are available" to "Exploits are available") Plugin Feed: 202403141554
Version 1.9 May 25, 2023, 5:09 PM Logic Changes (Added support for ppc64le architecture) Plugin Feed: 202305251709
Version 1.8 Jan 23, 2023, 7:12 PM Logic Changes (Added support for repository relative URLs) Plugin Feed: 202301231912