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RHEL 7 : ceph (RHSA-2016:1384)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 112171

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Synopsis

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

Description

An updated ceph package that fixes one security issue is now available for Red Hat Ceph Storage 1.3 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

Red Hat Ceph Storage is a massively scalable, open, software-defined storage platform that combines the most stable version of Ceph with a Ceph management platform, deployment tools, and support services.

A flaw was found in the way handle_command() function would validate prefix value from user. An authenticated attacker could send a specially crafted prefix value resulting in ceph monitor crash.(CVE-2016-5009)

Upstream acknowledges Xiaoxi Chen as the original reporter of CVE-2016-5009.

All ceph users are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which contains backported patches to correct this issue.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1384

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-5009

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 112171

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2016-1384.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/29/2018

Updated: 10/24/2019

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ceph-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ceph-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ceph-radosgw, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ceph-selinux, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:librados2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:librados2-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:librbd1, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:librbd1-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-rados, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-rbd, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7

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

Patch Publication Date: 7/5/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/12/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-5009

RHSA: 2016:1384