It was found that rhnsd PID files are created as world-writable that allows local attackers to fill the disks or to kill selected processes.

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.

  - rhnsd: World-writable PID files (CVE-2017-7560)

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.

  - rhnsd: World-writable PID files (CVE-2017-7560)

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 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.

  - rhnsd: World-writable PID files (CVE-2017-7560)

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

This plugin has been deprecated as it does not adhere to established standards for this style of check.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
199246	RHEL 7 : rhnsd (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
199233	RHEL 6 : rhnsd (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
199129	RHEL 5 : rhnsd (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
196079	RHEL 7 : rhnsd (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
196022	RHEL 5 : rhnsd (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
196008	RHEL 6 : rhnsd (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2017-7560

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Tenable Plugins

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