RHEL 7 : rh-haproxy18-haproxy (RHSA-2020:1290)

high Nessus Plugin ID 170290

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for rh-haproxy18-haproxy.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2020:1290 advisory.

- haproxy: malformed HTTP/2 requests can lead to out-of-bounds writes (CVE-2020-11100)

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 rh-haproxy18-haproxy package based on the guidance in RHSA-2020:1290.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?33b2fc15

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

https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/haproxy

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1290

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1819111

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 170290

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-1290.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/23/2023

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: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-11100

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-haproxy18-haproxy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-haproxy18-haproxy-syspaths

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: 4/2/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/2/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-11100

CWE: 787

RHSA: 2020:1290