RHEL 8 : udisks2 (RHSA-2022:1820)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 161050

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for udisks2.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2022:1820 advisory.

- udisks2: insecure defaults in user-accessible mount helpers allow for a DoS (CVE-2021-3802)

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 RHEL udisks2 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2022:1820.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?569cc0dc

http://www.nessus.org/u?9341665d

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:1820

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2003649

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2004422

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2023880

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2025483

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 161050

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-1820.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/11/2022

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: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Temporal Score: 4.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-3802

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.2

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libudisks2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libudisks2-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:udisks2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:udisks2-iscsi, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:udisks2-lsm, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:udisks2-lvm2

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: 5/10/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/29/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-3802

CWE: 20

RHSA: 2022:1820