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RHEL 8 : sssd (RHSA-2019:3651)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 130562

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Synopsis

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

Description

An update for sssd is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. 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 following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version:
sssd (2.2.0). (BZ#1687281)

Security Fix(es) :

* sssd: improper implementation of GPOs due to too restrictive permissions (CVE-2018-16838)

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.

Additional Changes :

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?774148ae

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3651

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-16838

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 130562

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2019-3651.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/6/2019

Updated: 4/15/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-16838

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libipa_hbac, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libipa_hbac-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libsss_autofs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libsss_autofs-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libsss_certmap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libsss_certmap-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libsss_idmap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libsss_idmap-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libsss_nss_idmap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libsss_nss_idmap-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libsss_nss_idmap-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libsss_simpleifp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libsss_simpleifp-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libsss_sudo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libsss_sudo-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-libipa_hbac, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-libipa_hbac-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-libsss_nss_idmap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-libsss_nss_idmap-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-sss, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-sss-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-sss-murmur, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-sss-murmur-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-sssdconfig, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sssd, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sssd-ad, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sssd-ad-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sssd-client, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sssd-client-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sssd-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sssd-common-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sssd-common-pac, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sssd-common-pac-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sssd-dbus, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sssd-dbus-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sssd-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sssd-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sssd-ipa, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sssd-ipa-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sssd-kcm, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sssd-kcm-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sssd-krb5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sssd-krb5-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sssd-krb5-common-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sssd-krb5-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sssd-ldap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sssd-ldap-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sssd-libwbclient, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sssd-libwbclient-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sssd-nfs-idmap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sssd-nfs-idmap-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sssd-polkit-rules, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sssd-proxy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sssd-proxy-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sssd-tools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sssd-tools-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sssd-winbind-idmap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sssd-winbind-idmap-debuginfo, 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: 11/5/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/25/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-16838

RHSA: 2019:3651