RHEL 8 : Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2 (etcd) (RHSA-2022:6061)

high Nessus Plugin ID 164130

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:6061 advisory.

- prometheus/client_golang: Denial of service using InstrumentHandlerCounter (CVE-2022-21698)

- golang: compress/gzip: stack exhaustion in Reader.Read (CVE-2022-30631)

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 etcd package.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-21698

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-30631

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:6061

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2045880

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2107342

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 164130

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-6061.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/15/2022

Updated: 1/23/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

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-2022-21698

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-30631

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:etcd

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: 8/15/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/15/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-21698, CVE-2022-30631

CWE: 1325, 400, 772

RHSA: 2022:6061