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RHEL 8 : e2fsprogs (RHSA-2020:1913)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 143020

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:1913 advisory.

 The e2fsprogs packages provide a number of utilities for creating, checking, modifying, and correcting the ext2, ext3, and ext4 file systems.

 The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: e2fsprogs (1.45.4). (BZ#1783777)

 Security Fix(es):

 * e2fsprogs: crafted ext4 partition leads to out-of-bounds write (CVE-2019-5094)

 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.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?8082d26c

http://www.nessus.org/u?dd7b3f20

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1913

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1768555

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1780279

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1783777

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1788573

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 143020

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-1913.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/18/2020

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: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-5094

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.7

Temporal Score: 6

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-5188

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:e2fsprogs-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libss, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:e2fsprogs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libcom_err-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:e2fsprogs-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libcom_err, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/28/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/24/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-5094, CVE-2019-5188

CWE: 787

RHSA: 2020:1913