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RHEL 5 / 6 / 7 : glibc (RHSA-2017:1479)

high Nessus Plugin ID 100890

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for glibc.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 / 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2017:1479 advisory.

 The glibc packages provide the standard C libraries (libc), POSIX thread libraries (libpthread), standard math libraries (libm), and the name service cache daemon (nscd) used by multiple programs on the system.
 Without these libraries, the Linux system cannot function correctly.

 Security Fix(es):

 * A flaw was found in the way memory was being allocated on the stack for user space binaries. If heap (or different memory region) and stack memory regions were adjacent to each other, an attacker could use this flaw to jump over the stack guard gap, cause controlled memory corruption on process stack or the adjacent memory region, and thus increase their privileges on the system. This is glibc-side mitigation which blocks processing of LD_LIBRARY_PATH for programs running in secure-execution mode and reduces the number of allocations performed by the processing of LD_AUDIT, LD_PRELOAD, and LD_HWCAP_MASK, making successful exploitation of this issue more difficult. (CVE-2017-1000366)

 Red Hat would like to thank Qualys Research Labs for reporting this issue.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL glibc package based on the guidance in RHSA-2017:1479.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?f4931cf0

https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/stackguard

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1452543

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1479

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 100890

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2017-1479.nasl

Version: 3.24

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/20/2017

Updated: 11/4/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 6.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-1000366

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7.5

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:H/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:glibc-headers, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:7.2, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_tus:6.6, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:glibc-utils, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:glibc-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:glibc-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:glibc-static, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_aus:6.6, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:6.7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:glibc, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_aus:6.4, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_aus:6.5, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_els:5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nscd, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_aus:5.9, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_tus:6.5

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/19/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/19/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-1000366

RHSA: 2017:1479