RHEL 6 : dbus (RHSA-2019:2868)

high Nessus Plugin ID 129273

Synopsis

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

Description

An update for dbus is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Advanced Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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.

D-Bus is a system for sending messages between applications. It is used both for the system-wide message bus service, and as a per-user-login-session messaging facility.

Security Fix(es) :

* dbus: DBusServer DBUS_COOKIE_SHA1 authentication bypass (CVE-2019-12749)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2868

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2019-12749

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 129273

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2019-2868.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/24/2019

Updated: 12/24/2019

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.6

Temporal Score: 2.7

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 6.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:dbus, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:dbus-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:dbus-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:dbus-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:dbus-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:dbus-x11, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.6

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: 9/23/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/11/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-12749

RHSA: 2019:2868