RHEL 7 : systemd (RHSA-2024:7705)

high Nessus Plugin ID 208241

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for systemd.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:7705 advisory.

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.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7-ELS Release Notes linked from 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 systemd package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:7705.

See Also

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

http://www.nessus.org/u?4f28f7db

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2175611

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-17394

http://www.nessus.org/u?30bf25f0

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:7705

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 208241

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-7705.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/7/2024

Updated: 10/7/2024

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: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-26604

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_els:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:systemd, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:systemd-sysv, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libgudev1-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:systemd-python, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:systemd-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:systemd-networkd, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libgudev1, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:systemd-resolved, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:systemd-journal-gateway, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:systemd-devel

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: 10/7/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/3/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-26604

RHSA: 2024:7705