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RHEL 8 : e2fsprogs (RHSA-2020:1913)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 143020

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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-2020:1913 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

http://www.nessus.org/u?a7c082d3

http://www.nessus.org/u?dd7b3f20

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1913

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1768555

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1780279

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1783777

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1788573

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 143020

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-1913.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/18/2020

Updated: 4/28/2024

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:8, 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:libcom_err, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libcom_err-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libss

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: 4/28/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/24/2019

Reference Information

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

CWE: 787

RHSA: 2020:1913