Audit before 2.4.4 in Linux does not sanitize escape characters in filenames.

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

  - Audit: log terminal emulator escape sequences handling (CVE-2015-5186)

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

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

  - Audit: log terminal emulator escape sequences handling (CVE-2015-5186)

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

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability that has been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - Audit: log terminal emulator escape sequences handling (CVE-2015-5186)

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

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability that has been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - Audit: log terminal emulator escape sequences handling (CVE-2015-5186)

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

According to the version of the audit packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

  - Audit before 2.4.4 in Linux does not sanitize escape     characters in filenames.(CVE-2015-5186)

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 for audit fixes the following issues :

Audit on SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP3 was updated to 2.8.1 to bring new features and bugfixes. (bsc#1125535 FATE#326346)

Many features were added to auparse_normalize

cli option added to auditd and audispd for setting config dir

In auditd, restore the umask after creating a log file

Option added to auditd for skipping email verification

The full changelog can be found here:
http://people.redhat.com/sgrubb/audit/ChangeLog Change openldap dependency to client only (bsc#1085003)

Minor security issue fixed: CVE-2015-5186: Audit: log terminal emulator escape sequences handling (bsc#941922)

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

This update for audit fixes the following issues :

Audit on SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP4 was updated to 2.8.1 to bring new features and bugfixes. (bsc#1125535 FATE#326346)

Many features were added to auparse_normalize

cli option added to auditd and audispd for setting config dir

In auditd, restore the umask after creating a log file

Option added to auditd for skipping email verification

The full changelog can be found here:
http://people.redhat.com/sgrubb/audit/ChangeLog Change openldap dependency to client only (bsc#1085003)

Minor security issue fixed: CVE-2015-5186: Audit: log terminal emulator escape sequences handling (bsc#941922)

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

This update fixes CVE-2015-5186. The issue is that ausearch/report did not escape terminal emulator sequences when interpreting untrusted data.

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
199403	RHEL 5 : audit (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
199352	RHEL 6 : audit (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
199340	RHEL 4 : audit (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
199285	RHEL 7 : audit (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
132273	EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : audit (EulerOS-SA-2019-2556)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
131877	EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : audit (EulerOS-SA-2019-2385)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
124694	SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : audit (SUSE-SU-2019:1166-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
122666	SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : audit (SUSE-SU-2019:0563-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
85559	Fedora 22 : audit-2.4.4-1.fc22 (2015-13526)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
85557	Fedora 21 : audit-2.4.4-1.fc21 (2015-13471)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium

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