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CentOS 8 : systemd (CESA-2021:2717)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 151876

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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-2021:2717 advisory.

 - systemd: uncontrolled allocation on the stack in function unit_name_path_escape leads to crash (CVE-2021-33910)

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-2021:2717

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 151876

File Name: centos8_RHSA-2021-2717.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/21/2021

Updated: 7/30/2021

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: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-33910

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:systemd-container, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:systemd-journal-remote, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:systemd-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:systemd-pam, cpe:/o:centos:centos:8, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:systemd-libs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:systemd-udev, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:systemd-tests, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:systemd

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: 7/21/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/20/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-33910

IAVA: 2021-A-0350

RHSA: 2021:2717