Oracle Linux 8 : olcne (ELSA-2021-9267)

high Nessus Plugin ID 150061

Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2021-9267 advisory.

- encoding/xml in Go before 1.15.9 and 1.16.x before 1.16.1 has an infinite loop if a custom TokenReader (for xml.NewTokenDecoder) returns EOF in the middle of an element. This can occur in the Decode, DecodeElement, or Skip method. (CVE-2021-27918)

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://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2021-9267.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 150061

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2021-9267.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/29/2021

Updated: 9/22/2022

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-27918

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:istio, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:istio-istioctl, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:istio-mixc, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:istio-mixs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:istio-pilot-agent, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:istio-pilot-discovery, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kata, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kata-agent, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kata-image, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kata-ksm-throttler, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kata-proxy, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kata-runtime, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kata-shim, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kubeadm, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kubectl, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kubelet, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kubernetes-cni, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kubernetes-cni-plugins, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kubernetes-dashboard, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:olcne-agent, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:olcne-api-server, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:olcne-istio-chart, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:olcne-nginx, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:olcne-prometheus-chart, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:olcne-utils, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:olcnectl, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:yq, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:conmon, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:coredns, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:cri-o, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:cri-tools, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:etcd, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:flannel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:helm

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/OracleLinux

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/29/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/11/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-27918

IAVB: 2021-B-0040-S