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RHEL 7 : augeas (RHSA-2017:2788)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 103405

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

An update for augeas is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Augeas is a configuration editing tool. It parses configuration files in their native formats and transforms them into a tree. Configuration changes are made by manipulating this tree and saving it back into native config files.

Security Fix(es) :

* A vulnerability was discovered in augeas affecting the handling of escaped strings. An attacker could send crafted strings that would cause the application using augeas to copy past the end of a buffer, leading to a crash or possible code execution. (CVE-2017-7555)

This issue was discovered by Han Han (Red Hat).

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2788

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2017-7555

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 103405

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2017-2788.nasl

Version: 3.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/22/2017

Updated: 10/24/2019

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

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:augeas, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:augeas-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:augeas-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:augeas-libs, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.4, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.5, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.6, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.7

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: 1/31/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/17/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-7555

RHSA: 2017:2788