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RHEL 7 : collectd (RHSA-2018:0299)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 210318

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2018:0299 advisory.

 collectd is a small C-language daemon, which reads various system metrics periodically and updates RRD files (creating them if necessary). Because the daemon does not start up each time it updates files, it has a low system footprint.

 Security Fix(es):

 * A double-free vulnerability was found in the csnmp_read_table function in the SNMP plugin of collectd. A network-based attacker could exploit this by sending malformed data, causing collectd to crash or possibly other impact. (CVE-2017-16820)

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 collectd package based on the guidance in RHSA-2018:0299.

See Also

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1516447

http://www.nessus.org/u?7ff8c2be

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0299

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 210318

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2018-0299.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: Medium

Score: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-16820

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:collectd-iptables, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:collectd-nginx, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:collectd-curl_xml, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:collectd-drbd, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:collectd-dbi, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:collectd-ping, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:collectd-apache, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:collectd-utils, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:collectd-disk, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:collectd-smart, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:collectd-write_tsdb, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:collectd-snmp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:collectd-notify_email, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:collectd-ceph, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:collectd-bind, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:collectd-zookeeper, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:collectd-write_http, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:collectd-email, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:collectd-lvm, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:collectd-netlink, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:collectd-notify_desktop, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:collectd-ascent, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:collectd-rrdtool, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:collectd-web, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:collectd-write_sensu, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:collectd-ipvs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:collectd-mysql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:collectd-rrdcached, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libcollectdclient, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:collectd-generic-jmx, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:collectd-ipmi, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:collectd-openldap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:collectd-postgresql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:collectd-log_logstash, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:collectd-turbostat, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:collectd-sensors, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:collectd-curl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-collectd, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:collectd-java, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:collectd-virt, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:collectd-curl_json, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:collectd, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:collectd-dns

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: 2/13/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/14/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-16820

CWE: 119

RHSA: 2018:0299