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RHEL 7 : ipsilon (RHSA-2016:2809)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 95047

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2016:2809 advisory.

 - ipsilon: DoS via logging out all open SAML2 sessions (CVE-2016-8638)

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 ipsilon package based on the guidance in RHSA-2016:2809.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?7e75ca5c

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:2809

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1392829

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 95047

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2016-2809.nasl

Version: 2.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/22/2016

Updated: 4/21/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-8638

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ipsilon, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ipsilon-authform, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ipsilon-authgssapi, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ipsilon-authldap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ipsilon-base, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ipsilon-client, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ipsilon-filesystem, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ipsilon-infosssd, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ipsilon-persona, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ipsilon-saml2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ipsilon-saml2-base, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ipsilon-tools-ipa, 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: 11/21/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/12/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-8638

CWE: 287

RHSA: 2016:2809