RHEL 7 : rabbitmq-server (RHSA-2017:0531)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 210210

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for rabbitmq-server.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2017:0531 advisory.

RabbitMQ is an implementation of AMQP, the emerging standard for high performance enterprise messaging.
The RabbitMQ server is a robust and scalable implementation of an AMQP broker.

Security Fix(es):

* A resource-consumption flaw was found in RabbitMQ Server, where the lengths_age or lengths_incr parameters were not validated in the management plugin. Remote, authenticated users with certain privileges could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service by passing values which were too large.
(CVE-2015-8786)

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 rabbitmq-server package based on the guidance in RHSA-2017:0531.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 210210

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2017-0531.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 11/4/2024

Updated: 11/4/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-8786

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/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:rabbitmq-server, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7

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: 3/15/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/1/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8786

CWE: 400

RHSA: 2017:0531

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