RHEL 7 : librabbitmq (RHSA-2020:3949)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 141010

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2020:3949 advisory.

The librabbitmq packages provide an Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) client library that allows you to communicate with AMQP servers using protocol version 0-9-1.

Security Fix(es):

* librabbitmq: integer overflow in amqp_handle_input in amqp_connection.c leads to heap-based buffer overflow (CVE-2019-18609)

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 7.9 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 librabbitmq package based on the guidance in RHSA-2020:3949.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 141010

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-3949.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 9/29/2020

Updated: 6/4/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-18609

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:librabbitmq-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:librabbitmq, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:librabbitmq-examples, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7

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: 9/29/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/1/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-18609

CWE: 122

RHSA: 2020:3949

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