RHEL 7 : Red Hat Ceph Storage 1.3 (RHSA-2016:2994)

high Nessus Plugin ID 110333

Synopsis

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

Description

An update is now available for Red Hat Ceph Storage 1.3. This erratum is for Red Hat Ceph Storage that runs on 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.

Red Hat Ceph Storage is a scalable, open, software-defined storage platform that combines the most stable version of the Ceph storage system with a Ceph management platform, deployment utilities, and support services.

Security Fix(es) :

* A flaw was found in the way Ceph Object Gateway would process cross-origin HTTP requests if the CORS policy was set to allow origin on a bucket. A remote unauthenticated attacker could use this flaw to cause denial of service by sending a specially crafted cross-origin HTTP request. (CVE-2016-9579)

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:2994

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-9579

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 110333

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2016-2994.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/6/2018

Updated: 10/24/2019

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ceph-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ceph-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ceph-radosgw, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ceph-selinux, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:librados2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:librados2-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:librbd1, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:librbd1-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-rados, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-rbd, 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: 12/21/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/1/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-9579

RHSA: 2016:2994