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RHEL 7 : erlang (RHSA-2018:0242)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 210298

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2018:0242 advisory.

 Erlang is a general-purpose programming language and runtime environment. Erlang has built-in support for concurrency, distribution and fault tolerance.

 Security Fix(es):

 * An erlang TLS server configured with cipher suites using RSA key exchange, may be vulnerable to an Adaptive Chosen Ciphertext attack (AKA Bleichenbacher attack) against RSA. This may result in plain-text recovery of encrypted messages and/or a man-in-the-middle (MiTM) attack, despite the attacker not having gained access to the servers private key itself. (CVE-2017-1000385)

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 erlang package based on the guidance in RHSA-2018:0242.

See Also

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1520400

http://www.nessus.org/u?327b6392

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0242

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 210298

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2018-0242.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/5/2024

Updated: 11/5/2024

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: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-1000385

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-orber, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-erl_docgen, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-asn1, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-sasl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-odbc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-ose, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-public_key, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-mnesia, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-eldap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-ic, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-kernel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-stdlib, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-runtime_tools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-otp_mibs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-parsetools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-compiler, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-diameter, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-costime, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-cosproperty, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-percept, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-cosfiletransfer, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-cosnotification, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-crypto, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-tools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-syntax_tools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-hipe, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-edoc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-coseventdomain, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-xmerl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-eunit, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-erl_interface, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-inets, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-erts, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-os_mon, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-snmp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-ssh, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-cosevent, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-costransactions, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-ssl

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: 1/30/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/28/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-1000385

CWE: 300

RHSA: 2018:0242