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Fedora 26 : glibc (2018-8e27ad96ed)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 106281

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update addresses two security vulnerabilities :

 - CVE-2017-15670, CVE-2017-15671, CVE-2017-15804: Various vulnerabilities could lead to memory corruption in the `glob` and `glob64` function. (RHBZ#1505298, RHBZ##1504807)

 - CVE-2017-16997: Check for empty tokens before dynamic string token expansion in the dynamic linker, so that pre-existing privileged programs with `$ORIGIN` rpaths/runpaths do not cause the dynamic linker to search the current directory, potentially leading to privilege escalation. (RHBZ#1526866).

 - CVE-2018-1000001: `getcwd` would sometimes return a non-absolute path, confusing the `realpath` function, leading to privilege escalation in conjunction with user namespaces. (RHBZ#1533837)

In addition, this update replaces the dynamic linker trampoline on x86-64 with a version which uses the `XSAVE` instruction if it is available. This improves compatibility with future hardware and compilers which do not follow the x86-64 ABI. This update also adjusts the thread stack size accounting to provide additional stack space compared to previous glibc versions (to avoid introducing RHBZ#1527887).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
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Solution

Update the affected glibc package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-8e27ad96ed

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 106281

File Name: fedora_2018-8e27ad96ed.nasl

Version: 3.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/24/2018

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:glibc, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:26

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/23/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/20/2017

Exploitable With

Metasploit (glibc "realpath()" Privilege Escalation)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-15670, CVE-2017-15671, CVE-2017-15804, CVE-2017-16997, CVE-2018-1000001