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Oracle Linux 7 : rsyslog (ELSA-2019-2110)

high Nessus Plugin ID 180834

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2019-2110 advisory.

 [8.24.0-38.0.2]
 - Newer gcc complains about implicit declaration of prctl. Added header file to quiesce the compiler

 [8.24.0-38] RHEL 7.7 ERRATUM
 - added patch increasing max path size preventing buffer overflow with too long paths resolves: rhbz#1656860

 [8.24.0-37] RHEL 7.7 ERRATUM
 - edited patch fixing mmkubernetes halt after pod deletition (covscan found an issue in previous version) resolves: rhbz#1622767
 - added patch stopping flooding logs with journald errors resolves: rhbz#1632211
 - added patch stopping flooding logs with symlink false-positives resolves: rhbz#1685901
 - added patch stopping memory leak when processing internal msgs resolves: rhbz#1666365
 - added documentation patch with info about CRI-O to mmkubernetes resolves: rhbz#1625935

 [8.24.0-36] RHEL 7.7 ERRATUM
 - added patch fixing mmkubernetes halt after pod deletition resolves: rhbz#1622767

 [8.24.0-35] RHEL 7.7 ERRATUM
 - added patch fixing memory corruption in omfwd module resolves: rhbz#1632659
 - added patch fixing imfile sopping monitor after rotation resolves: rhbz#1649250
 - added patch addressing imptcp CVE-2018-16881 resolves: rhbz#1658288

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-2019-2110.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 180834

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2019-2110.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: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-16881

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:rsyslog-mmnormalize, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:rsyslog-pgsql, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:rsyslog-mmsnmptrapd, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:rsyslog, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:rsyslog-relp, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:rsyslog-udpspoof, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:rsyslog-crypto, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:rsyslog-mysql, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:rsyslog-elasticsearch, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:rsyslog-snmp, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:rsyslog-gssapi, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:rsyslog-kafka, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:rsyslog-gnutls, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:rsyslog-mmjsonparse, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:7, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:rsyslog-doc, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:rsyslog-mmkubernetes, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:rsyslog-libdbi, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:rsyslog-mmaudit

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: 8/13/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/25/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-16881