The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2016:0188 advisory.

    The sos package contains a set of utilities that gather information from     system hardware, logs, and configuration files. The information can then be     used for diagnostic purposes and debugging.

    An insecure temporary file use flaw was found in the way sos created     certain sosreport files. A local attacker could possibly use this flaw to     perform a symbolic link attack to reveal the contents of sosreport files,     or in some cases modify arbitrary files and escalate their privileges on     the system. (CVE-2015-7529)

    This issue was discovered by Mateusz Guzik of Red Hat.

    This update also fixes the following bug:

    * Previously, the sosreport tool was not collecting the /var/lib/ceph and     /var/run/ceph directories when run with the ceph plug-in enabled, causing     the generated sosreport archive to miss vital troubleshooting information     about ceph. With this update, the ceph plug-in for sosreport collects these     directories, and the generated report contains more useful information.
    (BZ#1291347)

    All users of sos are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which     contains backported patches to correct these issues.

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.

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RHEL 7 : sos (RHSA-2016:0188)

high Nessus Plugin ID 88787

Version 2.15