RHEL 8 : cryptsetup (RHSA-2022:0370)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 157314

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.

The cryptsetup packages provide a utility for setting up disk encryption using the dm-crypt kernel module.

Security Fix(es):

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

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.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise 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 RHEL cryptsetup package based on the guidance in RHSA-2022:0370.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?a2898b32

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:0370

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2032401

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 157314

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

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/2/2022

Updated: 11/8/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous 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