RHEL 7 : skydive (RHSA-2019:2796)

high Nessus Plugin ID 194109

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for skydive.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:2796 advisory.

Skydive is an open source real-time network topology and protocols analyzer.

Security Fix(es):

* HTTP/2: flood using PING frames results in unbounded memory growth (CVE-2019-9512)

* HTTP/2: flood using HEADERS frames results in unbounded memory growth (CVE-2019-9514)

* HTTP/2: flood using SETTINGS frames results in unbounded memory growth (CVE-2019-9515)

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 these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL skydive package based on the guidance in RHSA-2019:2796.

See Also

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1735645

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1735744

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1735745

http://www.nessus.org/u?64911d09

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2796

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 194109

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2019-2796.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/27/2024

Updated: 6/3/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-9515

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: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:skydive-analyzer, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:skydive-selinux, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:skydive, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:skydive-ansible, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:skydive-agent

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: 9/19/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/9/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-9512, CVE-2019-9514, CVE-2019-9515

CWE: 400

RHSA: 2019:2796