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Virtuozzo 7 : kdelibs / kdelibs-apidocs / kdelibs-common / etc (VZLSA-2017-1264)

high Nessus Plugin ID 101468

Synopsis

The remote Virtuozzo host is missing a security update.

Description

An update for kdelibs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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 K Desktop Environment (KDE) is a graphical desktop environment for the X Window System. The kdelibs packages include core libraries for the K Desktop Environment.

Security Fix(es) :

* A privilege escalation flaw was found in the way kdelibs handled D-Bus messages. A local user could potentially use this flaw to gain root privileges by spoofing a callerID and leveraging a privileged helper application. (CVE-2017-8422)

Red Hat would like to thank Sebastian Krahmer (SUSE) for reporting this issue.

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 kdelibs / kdelibs-apidocs / kdelibs-common / etc package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?c60a4e2e

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-1264

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 101468

File Name: Virtuozzo_VZLSA-2017-1264.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Published: 7/13/2017

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:kdelibs, p-cpe:/a:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:kdelibs-apidocs, p-cpe:/a:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:kdelibs-common, p-cpe:/a:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:kdelibs-devel, p-cpe:/a:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:kdelibs-ktexteditor, cpe:/o:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:7

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

Patch Publication Date: 5/22/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-8422