RHEL 7 : ipmitool (RHSA-2020:1486)

high Nessus Plugin ID 135689

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2020:1486 advisory.

- ipmitool: Buffer overflow in read_fru_area_section function in lib/ipmi_fru.c (CVE-2020-5208)

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 affected bmc-snmp-proxy, exchange-bmc-os-info and / or ipmitool packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-5208

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1486

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1798721

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 135689

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-1486.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/16/2020

Updated: 5/25/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-5208

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:7.5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:bmc-snmp-proxy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:exchange-bmc-os-info, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ipmitool

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/16/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/5/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-5208

CWE: 119

RHSA: 2020:1486