RHEL 7 / 8 : OpenShift Container Platform 4.2.36 cri-o (RHSA-2020:2776)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 138033

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 / 8 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2020:2776 advisory.

- cri-o: infra container reparented to systemd following OOM Killer killing it's conmon (CVE-2019-14891)

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 cri-o package.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-14891

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:2776

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1772280

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 138033

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-2776.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/1/2020

Updated: 1/23/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-14891

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cri-o

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: 7/1/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/25/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-14891

CWE: 460

RHSA: 2020:2776