The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 / 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2021:2555 advisory.

    Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is Red Hat's cloud computing     Kubernetes application platform solution designed for on-premise or private     cloud deployments.

    This advisory contains the RPM packages for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.7.19. See the following     advisory for the container images for this release:

    https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:2554

    Security Fix(es):

    * polkit: local privilege escalation using polkit_system_bus_name_get_creds_sync() (CVE-2021-3560)

    * dhcp: stack-based buffer overflow when parsing statements with colon-separated hex digits in config or     lease files in dhcpd and dhclient (CVE-2021-25217)

    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.

    All OpenShift Container Platform 4.7 users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages and images     when they are available in the appropriate release channel. To check for available updates, use the     OpenShift Console or the CLI oc command. Instructions for upgrading a cluster are available at     https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.7/updating/updating-cluster-between-     minor.html#understanding-upgrade-channels_updating-cluster-between-minor

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.

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RHEL 7 / 8 : OpenShift Container Platform 4.7.19 (RHSA-2021:2555)

high Nessus Plugin ID 151426

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