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RHEL 7 : erlang (RHSA-2018:0368)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 194063

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2018:0368 advisory.

 - erlang: TLS server vulnerable to Adaptive Chosen Ciphertext attack allowing plaintext recovery or MITM attack (CVE-2017-1000385)

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 erlang package based on the guidance in RHSA-2018:0368.

See Also

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1520400

http://www.nessus.org/u?26d9c011

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0368

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 194063

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2018-0368.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/27/2024

Updated: 4/27/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-1000385

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-parsetools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-percept, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-public_key, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-runtime_tools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-sasl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-asn1, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-compiler, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-cosevent, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-coseventdomain, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-cosfiletransfer, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-cosnotification, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-cosproperty, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-costime, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-costransactions, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-crypto, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-diameter, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-edoc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-eldap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-erl_docgen, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-erl_interface, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-erts, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-eunit, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-hipe, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-ic, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-inets, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-kernel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-mnesia, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-odbc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-orber, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-os_mon, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-ose, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-otp_mibs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-snmp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-ssh, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-ssl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-stdlib, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-syntax_tools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-tools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:erlang-xmerl

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: 2/27/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/28/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-1000385

CWE: 300

RHSA: 2018:0368