RHEL 8 : pacemaker (RHSA-2019:1279)

high Nessus Plugin ID 125446

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:1279 advisory.

- pacemaker: Insufficient local IPC client-server authentication on the client's side can lead to local privesc (CVE-2018-16877)

- pacemaker: Insufficient verification inflicted preference of uncontrolled processes can lead to DoS (CVE-2018-16878)

- pacemaker: Information disclosure through use-after-free (CVE-2019-3885)

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 pacemaker package based on the guidance in RHSA-2019:1279.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 125446

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2019-1279.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 5/28/2019

Updated: 4/28/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-3885

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-16877

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pacemaker, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pacemaker-cli, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pacemaker-cluster-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pacemaker-cts, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pacemaker-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pacemaker-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pacemaker-libs-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pacemaker-nagios-plugins-metadata, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pacemaker-remote, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pacemaker-schemas, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8

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: 5/27/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/18/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-16877, CVE-2018-16878, CVE-2019-3885

CWE: 287, 400, 416

RHSA: 2019:1279

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