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RHEL 7 : e2fsprogs (RHSA-2020:4011)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 141012

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:4011 advisory.

 - e2fsprogs: Crafted ext4 partition leads to out-of-bounds write (CVE-2019-5094)

 - e2fsprogs: Out-of-bounds write in e2fsck/rehash.c (CVE-2019-5188)

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-2019-5094

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-5188

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4011

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1768555

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1790048

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 141012

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-4011.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/29/2020

Updated: 2/16/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-5094

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.7

Temporal Score: 6

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-5188

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:e2fsprogs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:e2fsprogs-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:e2fsprogs-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:e2fsprogs-static, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libcom_err, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libcom_err-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libss, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libss-devel

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: 9/29/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/24/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-5094, CVE-2019-5188

CWE: 787

RHSA: 2020:4011