RHEL 8 : Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2 (etcd) (RHSA-2022:0237)

high Nessus Plugin ID 157054

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2 (etcd).

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:0237 advisory.

A highly-available key value store for shared configuration

Security Fix(es):

* net/http: limit growth of header canonicalization cache (CVE-2021-44716)

* net: incorrect parsing of extraneous zero characters at the beginning of an IP address octet (CVE-2021-29923)

* crypto/tls: certificate of wrong type is causing TLS client to panic (CVE-2021-34558)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page listed in the References section.

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.

Solution

Update the RHEL Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2 (etcd) package based on the guidance in RHSA-2022:0237.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 157054

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-0237.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 1/25/2022

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-29923

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:H/A:N

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:etcd, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/24/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/15/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-29923, CVE-2021-34558, CVE-2021-44716

CWE: 20, 400

IAVB: 2021-B-0047-S

RHSA: 2022:0237

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