RHEL 8 : fapolicyd (RHSA-2022:4824)

high Nessus Plugin ID 161704

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2022:4824 advisory.

Fapolicyd (File Access Policy Daemon) implements application whitelisting to decide file access rights.
Applications that are known via a reputation source are allowed access while unknown applications are not.
The daemon makes use of the kernel's fanotify interface to determine file access rights.

Security Fix(es):

* fapolicyd: fapolicyd wrongly prepares ld.so path (CVE-2022-1117)

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.

Bug Fix(es):

* Faulty handling of static applications (BZ#2084549)

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 fapolicyd package based on the guidance in RHSA-2022:4824.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 161704

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-4824.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 5/31/2022

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-1117

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.4

Temporal Score: 7.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.4, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fapolicyd, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fapolicyd-selinux

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: 5/31/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/10/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-1117

CWE: 552

RHSA: 2022:4824

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