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CentOS 8 : cyrus-sasl (CESA-2020:4497)

high Nessus Plugin ID 146019

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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-2020:4497 advisory.

 - cyrus-sasl: denial of service in _sasl_add_string function (CVE-2019-19906)

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-2020:4497

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 146019

File Name: centos8_RHSA-2020-4497.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/1/2021

Updated: 1/24/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-19906

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:cyrus-sasl-gs2, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:cyrus-sasl-scram, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:cyrus-sasl-lib, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:cyrus-sasl-md5, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:cyrus-sasl-plain, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:cyrus-sasl-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:cyrus-sasl-sql, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:cyrus-sasl-ntlm, cpe:/o:centos:centos:8, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:cyrus-sasl-ldap, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:cyrus-sasl, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:cyrus-sasl-gssapi

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/4/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/19/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-19906

RHSA: 2020:4497