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RHEL 8 : kpatch-patch (RHSA-2019:4245)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 132230

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for kpatch-patch.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2019:4245 advisory.

 - kpatch: hw: incomplete fix for CVE-2018-12207 (CVE-2019-19339)

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

Solution

Update the RHEL kpatch-patch package based on the guidance in RHSA-2019:4245.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?ac44eb13

https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/ifu-page-mce

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1782199

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4245

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 132230

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2019-4245.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/18/2019

Updated: 4/24/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-19339

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kpatch-patch-4_18_0-147, 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: 12/17/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/17/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-19339

CWE: 805

RHSA: 2019:4245