RHEL 8 : libssh (RHSA-2020:4545)

high Nessus Plugin ID 142391

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:4545 advisory.

libssh is a library which implements the SSH protocol. It can be used to implement client and server applications.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: libssh (0.9.4). (BZ#1804797)

Security Fix(es):

* libssh: denial of service when handling AES-CTR (or DES) ciphers (CVE-2020-1730)

* libssh: unsanitized location in scp could lead to unwanted command execution (CVE-2019-14889)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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 libssh, libssh-config and / or libssh-devel packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?a70cabef

http://www.nessus.org/u?b7e37d18

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4545

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1733914

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1772523

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1801998

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1804797

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1821339

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1849071

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 142391

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-4545.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/4/2020

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 6.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-14889

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libssh, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libssh-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libssh-config

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: 11/4/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/10/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-14889, CVE-2020-1730

CWE: 476, 78

IAVA: 2020-A-0203

RHSA: 2020:4545