Synopsis
The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
Description
The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:5606 advisory.
Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage is software-defined storage integrated with and optimized for the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage is a highly scalable, production- grade persistent storage for stateful applications running in the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. In addition to persistent storage, Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage provisions a multicloud data management service with an S3 compatible API.
These updated packages include numerous security fixes, bug fixes, and enhancements.
Security Fix(es):
* golang.org/x/text: possibility to trigger an infinite loop in encoding/unicode could lead to crash (CVE-2020-14040)
* golang: data race in certain net/http servers including ReverseProxy can lead to DoS (CVE-2020-15586)
* golang: ReadUvarint and ReadVarint can read an unlimited number of bytes from invalid inputs (CVE-2020-16845)
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.
These updated packages include numerous bug fixes and enhancements. Users are directed to the Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage Release Notes for information on the most significant of these changes:
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en- us/red_hat_openshift_container_storage/4.6/html/4.6_release_notes/index
All Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages.
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 affected mcg package.
Plugin Details
File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-5606.nasl
Agent: unix
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
Vendor
Vendor Severity: Moderate
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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:redhat:enterprise_linux:mcg, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
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: 12/17/2020
Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/17/2020