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RHEL 7 : Red Hat Virtualization (RHSA-2021:0028)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 144765

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2021:0028 advisory.

 - lldpd: buffer overflow in the lldp_decode function in daemon/protocols/lldp.c (CVE-2015-8011)

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 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1896536

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8011

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0028

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 144765

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2021-0028.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/6/2021

Updated: 5/24/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-8011

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/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:python-openvswitch2.11, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:redhat-virtualization-host-image-update, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openvswitch2.11, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openvswitch2.11-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ovn2.11, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ovn2.11-central, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ovn2.11-host, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ovn2.11-vtep

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: 1/6/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/16/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8011

BID: 77114

CWE: 120

RHSA: 2021:0028