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Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : Rsyslog vulnerabilities (USN-5419-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 161170

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5419-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that Rsyslog improperly handled certain invalid input. An attacker could use this issue to cause Rsyslog to crash.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu 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 affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5419-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 161170

File Name: ubuntu_USN-5419-1.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/13/2022

Updated: 9/19/2024

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: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-17042

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.3

Threat Score: 8.1

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:rsyslog, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:rsyslog-pgsql, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:rsyslog-elasticsearch, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:rsyslog-mysql, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:rsyslog-relp, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:rsyslog-gnutls, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:rsyslog-gssapi, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:esm

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/12/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/25/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-16881, CVE-2019-17041, CVE-2019-17042

USN: 5419-1