RHEL 8 : oddjob (RHSA-2020:4687)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 142405

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2020:4687 advisory.

The oddjob packages contain a D-Bus service which performs particular tasks for clients which connect to it and issue requests using the system-wide message bus.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: oddjob (0.34.5). (BZ#1833289)

Security Fix(es):

* oddjob: race condition in oddjob_selinux_mkdir function in mkhomedir.c can lead to symlink attack (CVE-2020-10737)

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 8.3 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 affected oddjob and / or oddjob-mkhomedir packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 142405

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-4687.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 11/4/2020

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.7

Temporal Score: 2.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-10737

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/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:oddjob-mkhomedir, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:oddjob, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8

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: 11/4/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/12/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-10737

CWE: 362

RHSA: 2020:4687

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