RHEL 7 / 8 : OpenShift Virtualization 4.8.3 RPMs (RHSA-2021:4910)

high Nessus Plugin ID 194214

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for OpenShift Virtualization 4.8.3 RPMs.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 / 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2021:4910 advisory.

OpenShift Virtualization is Red Hat's virtualization solution designed for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.

This advisory contains OpenShift Virtualization 4.8.3 RPMs.

Security Fix(es):

* golang: net: incorrect parsing of extraneous zero characters at the beginning of an IP address octet (CVE-2021-29923)

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

Solution

Update the RHEL OpenShift Virtualization 4.8.3 RPMs package based on the guidance in RHSA-2021:4910.

See Also

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1992006

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2007344

http://www.nessus.org/u?8b25dd21

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4910

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 194214

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2021-4910.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/28/2024

Updated: 11/7/2024

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: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-29923

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kubevirt, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kubevirt-virtctl-redistributable, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kubevirt-virtctl, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/2/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/7/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-29923

CWE: 20

RHSA: 2021:4910