libuser has information disclosure when moving user's home directory

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - libuser: TOCTOU race conditions by copying and removing directory trees (CVE-2012-5630)

  - libuser: (Complete) Information disclosure when moving user's home directory (CVE-2012-5644)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - libuser: TOCTOU race conditions by copying and removing directory trees (CVE-2012-5630)

  - libuser: Security flaw in handling /etc/passwd file (CVE-2015-3246)

  - libuser has information disclosure when moving user's home directory (CVE-2012-5644)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

According to the versions of the libuser packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - libuser 0.56 and 0.57 has a TOCTOU (time-of-check     time-of-use) race condition when copying and removing     directory trees.(CVE-2012-5630)

  - libuser has information disclosure when moving user's     home directory(CVE-2012-5644)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

This update fixes a TOCTOU race condition when copying and removing directory trees.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
199363	RHEL 6 : libuser (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
199339	RHEL 5 : libuser (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
137470	EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : libuser (EulerOS-SA-2020-1628)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
135535	EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : libuser (EulerOS-SA-2020-1406)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
66006	Fedora 18 : libuser-0.58-3.fc18 (2013-4571)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium

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