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Virtuozzo 7 : libblkid / libblkid-devel / libmount / etc (VZLSA-2017-0907)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 101446

Synopsis

The remote Virtuozzo host is missing a security update.

Description

An update for util-linux is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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.

The util-linux packages contain a large variety of low-level system utilities that are necessary for a Linux system to function. Among others, these include the fdisk configuration tool and the login program.

Security Fix(es) :

* A race condition was found in the way su handled the management of child processes. A local authenticated attacker could use this flaw to kill other processes with root privileges under specific conditions.
(CVE-2017-2616)

Red Hat would like to thank Tobias StAPckmann for reporting this issue.

Bug Fix(es) :

* The 'findmnt --target ' command prints all file systems where the mount point directory is . Previously, when used in the chroot environment, 'findmnt --target ' incorrectly displayed all mount points. The command has been fixed so that it now checks the mount point path and returns information only for the relevant mount point.
(BZ#1414481)

Note that Tenable Network Security has attempted to extract the preceding description block directly from the corresponding Red Hat security advisory. Virtuozzo provides no description for VZLSA advisories. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected libblkid / libblkid-devel / libmount / etc package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?fd30e24d

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0907

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 101446

File Name: Virtuozzo_VZLSA-2017-0907.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Published: 7/13/2017

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:X

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:libmount-devel, p-cpe:/a:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:libuuid, p-cpe:/a:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:libuuid-devel, p-cpe:/a:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:util-linux, p-cpe:/a:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:uuidd, cpe:/o:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:7, p-cpe:/a:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:libblkid, p-cpe:/a:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:libblkid-devel, p-cpe:/a:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:libmount

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

Patch Publication Date: 4/13/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-2616