An update for edk2 is available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, with an Important security impact due to a Buffer Overflow vulnerability in BlockIo service for RAM disk
Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 56 |
---|---|---|---|---|
Prion | Buffer overflow | 27 Mar 201920:29 | – | prion |
RedHat Linux | (RHSA-2019:0809) Important: ovmf security update | 23 Apr 201912:35 | – | redhat |
RedHat Linux | (RHSA-2019:0968) Important: edk2 security update | 7 May 201903:38 | – | redhat |
RedHat Linux | (RHSA-2019:1116) Important: redhat-virtualization-host security update | 8 May 201913:34 | – | redhat |
Tenable Nessus | CentOS 7 : ovmf (CESA-2019:0809) | 1 May 201900:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | RHEL 7 : Virtualization Manager (RHSA-2019:1116) | 13 May 201900:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | Scientific Linux Security Update : ovmf on (20190423) | 24 Apr 201900:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | Oracle Linux 7 : ovmf (ELSA-2019-0809) | 24 Apr 201900:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | NewStart CGSL CORE 5.04 / MAIN 5.04 : ovmf Vulnerability (NS-SA-2019-0076) | 12 Aug 201900:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | NewStart CGSL CORE 5.05 / MAIN 5.05 : ovmf Vulnerability (NS-SA-2019-0083) | 12 Aug 201900:00 | – | nessus |
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2019:0968. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Red Hat, Inc.
#
include("compat.inc");
if (description)
{
script_id(124663);
script_version("1.6");
script_cvs_date("Date: 2020/01/30");
script_cve_id("CVE-2018-12180");
script_xref(name:"RHSA", value:"2019:0968");
script_name(english:"RHEL 8 : edk2 (RHSA-2019:0968)");
script_summary(english:"Checks the rpm output for the updated package");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"An update for edk2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security
impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base
score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each
vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
EDK (Embedded Development Kit) is a project to enable UEFI support for
Virtual Machines. This package contains a sample 64-bit UEFI firmware
for QEMU and KVM.
Security Fix(es) :
* edk2: Buffer Overflow in BlockIo service for RAM disk
(CVE-2018-12180)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a
CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to
the CVE page(s) listed in the References section."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0968"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-12180"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:"Update the affected edk2-ovmf package."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:edk2-ovmf");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2019/03/27");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2019/05/07");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2019/05/07");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_family(english:"Red Hat Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list", "Host/cpu");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("misc_func.inc");
include("rpm.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release");
if (isnull(release) || "Red Hat" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Red Hat");
os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "Red Hat Enterprise Linux.*release ([0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Red Hat");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^8([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Red Hat 8.x", "Red Hat " + os_ver);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && "s390" >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Red Hat", cpu);
yum_updateinfo = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/yum-updateinfo");
if (!empty_or_null(yum_updateinfo))
{
rhsa = "RHSA-2019:0968";
yum_report = redhat_generate_yum_updateinfo_report(rhsa:rhsa);
if (!empty_or_null(yum_report))
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_WARNING,
extra : yum_report
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
audit_message = "affected by Red Hat security advisory " + rhsa;
audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, audit_message);
}
}
else
{
flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL8", reference:"edk2-ovmf-20180508gitee3198e672e2-9.el8_0.1")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_WARNING,
extra : rpm_report_get() + redhat_report_package_caveat()
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "edk2-ovmf");
}
}
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