CentOS 6 : ding-libs / sssd (CESA-2018:1877)

high Nessus Plugin ID 110647

Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

An update for sssd and ding-libs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

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 System Security Services Daemon (SSSD) service provides a set of daemons to manage access to remote directories and authentication mechanisms. It also provides the Name Service Switch (NSS) and the Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) interfaces toward the system, and a pluggable back-end system to connect to multiple different account sources.

The ding-libs packages contain a set of libraries used by the System Security Services Daemon (SSSD) as well as other projects, and provide functions to manipulate file system path names (libpath_utils), a hash table to manage storage and access time properties (libdhash), a data type to collect data in a hierarchical structure (libcollection), a dynamically growing, reference-counted array (libref_array), and a library to process configuration files in initialization format (INI) into a library collection data structure (libini_config).

Security Fix(es) :

* sssd: unsanitized input when searching in local cache database (CVE-2017-12173)

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.

This issue was discovered by Sumit Bose (Red Hat).

Additional Changes :

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.10 Release Notes and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.10 Technical Notes linked from the References section.

Solution

Update the affected ding-libs and / or sssd packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?a8c5b85e

http://www.nessus.org/u?d66b60ec

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 110647

File Name: centos_RHSA-2018-1877.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/22/2018

Updated: 12/31/2019

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-12173

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:sssd-krb5-common, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:sssd-ldap, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:sssd-proxy, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libbasicobjects, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libbasicobjects-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libcollection, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libcollection-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libdhash, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libdhash-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libini_config, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libini_config-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libipa_hbac, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libipa_hbac-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libpath_utils, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libpath_utils-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libref_array, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libref_array-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libsss_idmap, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libsss_idmap-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libsss_nss_idmap, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libsss_nss_idmap-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:sssd-tools, cpe:/o:centos:centos:6, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libsss_simpleifp, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libsss_simpleifp-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python-libipa_hbac, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python-libsss_nss_idmap, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python-sss, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python-sss-murmur, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python-sssdconfig, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:sssd, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:sssd-ad, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:sssd-client, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:sssd-common, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:sssd-common-pac, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:sssd-dbus, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:sssd-ipa, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:sssd-krb5

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

Patch Publication Date: 6/21/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/27/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-12173

RHSA: 2018:1877