RHEL 7 : fuse (RHSA-2018:3324)

high Nessus Plugin ID 118540

Synopsis

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

Description

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

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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.

The fuse packages contain the File System in Userspace (FUSE) tools to mount a FUSE file system. With FUSE, it is possible to implement a fully functional file system in a user-space program.

Security Fix(es) :

* fuse: bypass of the 'user_allow_other' restriction when SELinux is active (CVE-2018-10906)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes :

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?3395ff0b

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3324

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-10906

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 118540

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2018-3324.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/31/2018

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: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fuse, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fuse-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fuse-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fuse-libs, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/30/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/24/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-10906

RHSA: 2018:3324