Oracle Linux 8 : sssd (ELSA-2019-3651)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 180642

Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2019-3651 advisory.

[2.2.0-19]
- Resolves: rhbz#1712875 - Old kerberos credentials active instead of valid new ones (kcm)

[2.2.0-18]
- Resolves: rhbz#1744134 - New defect found in sssd-2.2.0-16.el8
- Also sync. kcm multihost tests with master

[2.2.0-17]
- Resolves: rhbz#1676385 - pam_sss with smartcard auth does not create gnome keyring
- Also apply a patch to fix gating tests issue

[2.2.0-16]
- Resolves: rhbz#1736861 - dyndns_update = True is no longer enough to get the IP address of the machine updated in IPA upon sssd.service startup

[2.2.0-15]
- Resolves: rhbz#1736265 - Smart Card auth of local user: endless loop if wrong PIN was provided

[2.2.0-14]
- Resolves: rhbz#1736796 - sssd config option 'default_domain_suffix' should not cause files domain entries to be qualified, this can break sudo access

[2.2.0-13]
- Resolves: rhbz#1669407 - MAN: Document that PAM stack contains the systemd-user service in the account phase in RHEL-8

[2.2.0-12]
- Resolves: rhbz#1448094 - sssd-kcm cannot handle big tickets

[2.2.0-11]
- Resolves: rhbz#1733372 - permission denied on logs when running sssd as non-root user

[2.2.0-10]
- Resolves: rhbz#1736483 - Sudo prompt for smart card authentication is missing the trailing colon

[2.2.0-9]
- Resolves: rhbz#1382750 - Conflicting default timeout values

[2.2.0-8]
- Resolves: rhbz#1699480 - Include libsss_nss_idmap-devel in the Builder repository
- This just required a raise in release number and changelog for the record.

[2.2.0-7]
- Resolves: rhbz#1711318 - p11_child::sign_data() function implementation is not FIPS140 compliant

[2.2.0-6]
- Resolves: rhbz#1726945 - negative cache does not use values from 'filter_users' config option for known domains

[2.2.0-5]
- Resolves: rhbz#1729055 - sssd does not pass correct rules to sudo

[2.2.0-4]
- Resolves: rhbz#1283798 - sssd failover does not work on connecting to non-responsive ldaps:// server

[2.2.0-3]
- Resolves: rhbz#1725168 - sssd-proxy crashes resolving groups with no members

[2.2.0-2]
- Resolves: rhbz#1673443 - sssd man pages: The default value of 'ldap_user_home_directory' is not mentioned with AD server configuration

[2.2.0-1]
- Resolves: rhbz#1687281 Rebase sssd in RHEL-8.1 to the latest upstream release

[2.1.0-1]
- Resolves: rhbz#1687281 Rebase sssd in RHEL-8.1 to the latest upstream release

[2.0.0-45]
- Replace ARRAY_SIZE with N_ELEMENTS to reflect samba changes. This is done here in order to unblock gating changes before rebase.
- Related: rhbz#1682305

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

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2019-3651.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 180642

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2019-3651.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/7/2023

Updated: 11/1/2024

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-16838

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:sssd-winbind-idmap, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libsss_nss_idmap, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libsss_nss_idmap-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:sssd-dbus, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:sssd-client, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python3-sss-murmur, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:sssd-common, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libipa_hbac, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:sssd-tools, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libsss_idmap, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:sssd-krb5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libsss_sudo, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python3-sss, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python3-libipa_hbac, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:sssd-libwbclient, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:sssd-common-pac, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python3-sssdconfig, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:sssd-krb5-common, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:sssd, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:sssd-proxy, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:sssd-ldap, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:sssd-nfs-idmap, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:sssd-ipa, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:sssd-polkit-rules, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libsss_autofs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libsss_certmap, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:sssd-ad, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:sssd-kcm, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libsss_simpleifp, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python3-libsss_nss_idmap

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/14/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/4/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-16838