RHEL 6 / 7 : Red Hat JBoss Core Services Apache HTTP Server 2.4.37 SP3 (RHSA-2020:2644)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 137705

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:2644 advisory.

- expat: large number of colons in input makes parser consume high amount of resources, leading to DoS (CVE-2018-20843)

- httpd: mod_http2: read-after-free on a string compare (CVE-2019-0196)

- httpd: mod_http2: possible crash on late upgrade (CVE-2019-0197)

- expat: heap-based buffer over-read via crafted XML input (CVE-2019-15903)

- libxml2: memory leak in xmlParseBalancedChunkMemoryRecover in parser.c (CVE-2019-19956)

- libxml2: memory leak in xmlSchemaPreRun in xmlschemas.c (CVE-2019-20388)

- nghttp2: overly large SETTINGS frames can lead to DoS (CVE-2020-11080)

- httpd: mod_proxy_ftp use of uninitialized value (CVE-2020-1934)

- libxml2: infinite loop in xmlStringLenDecodeEntities in some end-of-file situations (CVE-2020-7595)

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 affected packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-20843

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-0196

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-0197

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-15903

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-19956

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-20388

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-1934

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-7595

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-11080

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:2644

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1695030

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1695042

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1723723

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1752592

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1788856

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1799734

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1799786

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1820772

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1844929

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 137705

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-2644.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/22/2020

Updated: 3/6/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-1934

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbcs-httpd24-curl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbcs-httpd24-httpd, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbcs-httpd24-httpd-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbcs-httpd24-httpd-manual, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbcs-httpd24-httpd-selinux, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbcs-httpd24-httpd-tools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbcs-httpd24-libcurl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbcs-httpd24-libcurl-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbcs-httpd24-mod_cluster-native, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbcs-httpd24-mod_http2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbcs-httpd24-mod_jk-ap24, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbcs-httpd24-mod_jk-manual, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbcs-httpd24-mod_ldap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbcs-httpd24-mod_md, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbcs-httpd24-mod_proxy_html, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbcs-httpd24-mod_security, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbcs-httpd24-mod_session, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbcs-httpd24-mod_ssl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbcs-httpd24-nghttp2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbcs-httpd24-nghttp2-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbcs-httpd24-openssl-pkcs11

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: 6/22/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/1/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-20843, CVE-2019-0196, CVE-2019-0197, CVE-2019-15903, CVE-2019-19956, CVE-2019-20388, CVE-2020-11080, CVE-2020-1934, CVE-2020-7595

BID: 107665, 107669

CWE: 122, 125, 400, 401, 416, 444, 456, 770, 772, 835

IAVA: 2019-A-0098-S, 2020-A-0326

RHSA: 2020:2644