The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:6846 advisory.

    Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) is a suite of tools, services, and libraries for acquisition, archiving, and     analysis of system-level performance measurements. Its light-weight distributed architecture makes it     particularly well-suited to centralized analysis of complex systems.

    Security Fix(es):

    * pcp: pmpost symlink attack allows escalating pcp to root user (CVE-2024-45770)

    * pcp: pmcd heap corruption through metric pmstore operations (CVE-2024-45769)

    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.

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RHEL 9 : pcp (RHSA-2024:6846)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 207449

Version 1.2

Version 1.1

Version 1.2 Nov 7, 2024, 11:28 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411072328
Version 1.1 Sep 19, 2024, 4:39 PM New Plugin Feed: 202409191639