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CentOS 8 : e2fsprogs (CESA-2020:1913)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 145886

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote CentOS Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CESA-2020:1913 advisory.

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

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 packages.

See Also

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 145886

File Name: centos8_RHSA-2020-1913.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/1/2021

Updated: 1/24/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

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

Vulnerability Information

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

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/CentOS/release, Host/CentOS/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

RHSA: 2020:1913