Oracle Linux 7 : curl / and / nss-pem (ELSA-2018-3157)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 118775

Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2018-3157 advisory.

- fix RTSP bad headers buffer over-read (CVE-2018-1000301)
- fix FTP path trickery leads to NIL byte out of bounds write (CVE-2018-1000120)
- fix LDAP NULL pointer dereference (CVE-2018-1000121)
- fix RTSP RTP buffer over-read (CVE-2018-1000122)
- http: prevent custom Authorization headers in redirects (CVE-2018-1000007)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2018-3157.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 118775

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2018-3157.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/7/2018

Updated: 10/22/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-1000120

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:oracle:linux:7, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libcurl-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libcurl, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nss-pem, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:curl

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/6/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/24/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1000007, CVE-2018-1000120, CVE-2018-1000121, CVE-2018-1000122, CVE-2018-1000301

RHSA: 2018:3157