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RHEL 7 : firewalld (RHSA-2016:2597)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 94560

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Synopsis

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

Description

An update for firewalld 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.

firewalld is a firewall service daemon that provides a dynamic customizable firewall with a D-Bus interface.

The following packages have been upgraded to a newer upstream version:
firewalld (0.4.3.2). (BZ#1302802)

Security Fix(es) :

* A flaw was found in the way firewalld allowed certain firewall configurations to be modified by unauthenticated users. Any locally logged in user could use this flaw to tamper or change firewall settings. (CVE-2016-5410)

Additional Changes :

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:2597

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-5410

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 94560

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2016-2597.nasl

Version: 2.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/4/2016

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: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:firewall-applet, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:firewall-config, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:firewalld, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:firewalld-filesystem, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-firewall, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.3, 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: 11/3/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/19/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-5410

RHSA: 2016:2597