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Oracle Linux 8 : varnish:6 (ELSA-2021-2988)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 152184

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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-2021-2988 advisory.

 - Resolves: #1982861 - CVE-2021-36740 varnish:6/varnish: HTTP/2 request smuggling attack via a large Content-Length header for a POST request

 varnish-modules

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-2021-2988.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 152184

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2021-2988.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/3/2021

Updated: 10/22/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-36740

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:varnish-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:varnish-docs, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:varnish-modules, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:varnish

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/3/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/14/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-36740