RHEL 8 : cryptsetup (RHSA-2022:0370)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 157314

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for cryptsetup.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2022:0370 advisory.

- cryptsetup: disable encryption via header rewrite (CVE-2021-4122)

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 RHEL cryptsetup package based on the guidance in RHSA-2022:0370.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 157314

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-0370.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 2/2/2022

Updated: 4/28/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-4122

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:integritysetup, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cryptsetup-reencrypt, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cryptsetup-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:veritysetup, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cryptsetup-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cryptsetup

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/1/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/1/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-4122

CWE: 349

RHSA: 2022:0370

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