RHEL 7 : vdsm (RHSA-2019:1203)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 125193

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:1203 advisory.

- hardware: Microarchitectural Store Buffer Data Sampling (MSBDS) (CVE-2018-12126)

- hardware: Micro-architectural Load Port Data Sampling - Information Leak (MLPDS) (CVE-2018-12127)

- hardware: Microarchitectural Fill Buffer Data Sampling (MFBDS) (CVE-2018-12130)

- hardware: Microarchitectural Data Sampling Uncacheable Memory (MDSUM) (CVE-2019-11091)

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 RHEL vdsm package based on the guidance in RHSA-2019:1203.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/mds

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1203

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

http://www.nessus.org/u?76308b66

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1646781

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1646784

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1667782

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1705312

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 125193

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2019-1203.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/16/2019

Updated: 4/22/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

Temporal Score: 3.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-11091

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.6

Temporal Score: 4.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:vdsm, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:vdsm-hook-vhostmd, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:vdsm-python, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:vdsm-api, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:vdsm-client, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:vdsm-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:vdsm-gluster, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:vdsm-hook-checkips, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:vdsm-hook-cpuflags, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:vdsm-hook-ethtool-options, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:vdsm-hook-extra-ipv4-addrs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:vdsm-hook-fcoe, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:vdsm-hook-localdisk, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:vdsm-hook-macspoof, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:vdsm-hook-nestedvt, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:vdsm-hook-openstacknet, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:vdsm-hook-vmfex-dev, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:vdsm-http, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:vdsm-jsonrpc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:vdsm-network, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:vdsm-yajsonrpc

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: 5/14/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/30/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-12126, CVE-2018-12127, CVE-2018-12130, CVE-2019-11091

CWE: 226, 385

IAVA: 2019-A-0166

RHSA: 2019:1203