RHEL 7 : screen (RHSA-2022:1074)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 159285

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2022:1074 advisory.

The screen utility allows users to have multiple logins on a single terminal.

Security Fix(es):

* screen: crash when processing combining chars (CVE-2021-26937)

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 screen package based on the guidance in RHSA-2022:1074.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?5333a1dc

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:1074

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1927062

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 159285

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-1074.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/29/2022

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-26937

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:screen, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_tus:7.7, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_e4s:7.7, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_aus:7.7

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: 3/28/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/9/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-26937

CWE: 787

RHSA: 2022:1074