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CentOS 8 : nginx:1.14 (CESA-2019:2799)

high Nessus Plugin ID 145622

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote CentOS Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the CESA-2019:2799 advisory.

 - HTTP/2: large amount of data requests leads to denial of service (CVE-2019-9511)

 - HTTP/2: flood using PRIORITY frames results in excessive resource consumption (CVE-2019-9513)

 - HTTP/2: 0-length headers lead to denial of service (CVE-2019-9516)

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2799

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 145622

File Name: centos8_RHSA-2019-2799.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/29/2021

Updated: 1/25/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-9513

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:nginx-mod-http-xslt-filter, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:nginx-all-modules, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:nginx-filesystem, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:nginx-mod-stream, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:nginx-mod-mail, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:nginx-mod-http-image-filter, cpe:/o:centos:centos:8, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:nginx, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:nginx-mod-http-perl

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/19/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/9/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-9511, CVE-2019-9513, CVE-2019-9516

RHSA: 2019:2799