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Fedora 28 : systemd (2018-24bd6c9d4a)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 120295

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Fix a local vulnerability from a race condition in chown-recursive (CVE-2018-15687, #1643367)

 - Fix a local vulnerability from invalid handling of long lines in state deserialization (CVE-2018-15686, #1643372)

 - Fix a remote vulnerability in DHCPv6 in systemd-networkd (CVE-2018-15688, #1643362)

 - Downgrade logging of various messages and add loging in other places

 - Many many fixes in error handling and minor memory leaks and such

 - Fix typos and omissions in documentation

 - Various smaller improvements to unit ordering and dependencies

 - Handling of invalid (intentionally corrupt) dbus messages is improved, fixing potential local DOS avenues

 - The target of symlinks links in .wants/ and .requires/ is now ignored. This fixes an issue where the unit file would sometimes be loaded from such a symlink, leading to non-deterministic unit contents.

 - Filtering of kernel threads is improved. This fixes an issues with newer kernels where hybrid kernel/user threads are used by bpfilter.

 - Catalog entries for the journal are improved (#1639482)

No need to reboot or log out.

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Solution

Update the affected systemd package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-24bd6c9d4a

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 120295

File Name: fedora_2018-24bd6c9d4a.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/3/2019

Updated: 1/6/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:systemd, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:28

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/4/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/26/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-15686, CVE-2018-15687, CVE-2018-15688