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Oracle Linux 8 : NetworkManager / and / libnma (ELSA-2021-1574)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 149909

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2021-1574 advisory.

 libnma [1.8.30-2]
 - Rebuild with new gtk-doc to fix multilib issues (rh #1853152)

 NetworkManager [1.30.0-7.0.1]
 - add connectivity check via Oracle servers [Orabug: 32051972]
 - Disable the build of NetworkManager-config-connectivity-* subpackage for 8.3

 [1:1.30.0-7]
 - initrd: set multi-connect=single for connections with static IP (rh #1915493)

 [1:1.30.0-6]
 - core: fix handling local routes generated by kernel (rh #1907661)
 - initrd: fix crash with rd.znet= argument (rh #1941106)
 - core: fix crash handling path match (rh #1942741)

 [1:1.30.0-5]
 - bond: restore MAC on release only when there is a cloned MAC address (rh #1933292)

 [1:1.30.0-4]
 - initrd: apply the MTU from bond= argument to the bond connection (rh #1936610)

 [1:1.30.0-3]
 - Increase LimitNOFILE to allow more than 1024 file descriptors (rh #1926599).
 This requires a suitable libndp version that can handle many file descriptors (rh #1933041).

 [1:1.30.0-2]
 - Avoid logging warning setting bond ad_actor_system (rh #1923999)

 [1:1.30.0-1]
 - Update to 1.30.0 release

 [1:1.30.0-0.10]
 - Update to 1.30-rc1 (1.29.90-dev) (development)
 - cloud-setup: fix removing IPv4 address (rh #1920838)

 [1:1.30.0-0.9]
 - Update to 1.29.11 (development)
 - bond: fix changing mode when the device is created externally (rh #1870691)
 - ovs: fix firewalld configuration for ovs-ports (rh #1921107)
 - ovs: avoid race condition when system interface is removed from ovsdb (rh #1923248)
 - doc: mention NETMASK as alternative to PREFIX for addresses in man nm-settings-ifcfg-rh (rh #1925123)

 [1:1.30.0-0.8]
 - Update to 1.29.10 (development)
 - bond: introduce new 'vlan+srcmac' xmit_hash_policy option (rh #1915457)
 - ovs: clean up interfaces from ovsdb at startup (rh #1861296)

 [1:1.30.0-0.7]
 - Update to 1.29.9 (development)
 - By default check all devices for hostname reverse DNS lookup (rh #1766944)

 [1:1.30.0-0.6]
 - Update to 1.29.8 (development)
 - initrd: accept zero-byte prefix for BOOTIF MAC address (rh #1904099)
 - core: fix bond port wrongly detached by dispather call (rh #1888348)
 - cloud-setup: add manual page (rh #1867997)
 - core: fix handling timeout for IPv6 RDNSS,DNSSL option in RA (rh #1874743)

 [1:1.30.0-0.5]
 - Update to 1.29.7 (development)
 - Add WPA3-Enterprise support (rh #1883024)

 [1:1.30.0-0.4]
 - Update to 1.29.6 (development)
 - initrd: disable ipv4 and ipv6 by default for vlan parent connection (rh #1903175)
 - initrd: fix parsing of ip= argument with dotted interface name (rh #1898294)

 [1:1.30.0-0.3]
 - Update to 1.29.3 (development)
 - Support changing external-ids of OVS bridges and interfaces (rh #1866227)
 - Add a hostname setting (rh #1766944)
 - Support creating veth interfaces (rh #1901523)
 - initrd: fix parsing of ip= arguments with empty first token (rh #1900260)

 [1:1.30.0-0.2]
 - device: fix crash in nm_device_reactivate_ip_config()
 - dns: fix crash in systemd-resolved DNS plugin (rh #1894839)

 [1:1.30.0-0.1]
 - Update to 1.29.1 (development)
 - add library for handling profiles in keyfile format (rh #1813334)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle 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 packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2021-1574.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 149909

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2021-1574.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/26/2021

Updated: 11/1/2024

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-20297

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/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:oracle:linux:networkmanager-libnm-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:networkmanager-cloud-setup, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:networkmanager-wwan, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:networkmanager-config-server, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:networkmanager, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:networkmanager-dispatcher-routing-rules, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:networkmanager-team, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:networkmanager-ovs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libnma-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:networkmanager-config-connectivity-oracle, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:networkmanager-wifi, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:networkmanager-tui, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libnma, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:networkmanager-libnm, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:networkmanager-adsl, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:networkmanager-ppp, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:networkmanager-bluetooth

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/25/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/18/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-20297