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RHEL 7 : nautilus (RHSA-2018:0223)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 106336

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2018:0223 advisory.

 Nautilus is the file manager and graphical shell for the GNOME desktop.

 Security Fix(es):

 * An untrusted .desktop file with executable permission set could choose its displayed name and icon, and execute commands without warning when opened by the user. An attacker could use this flaw to trick a user into opening a .desktop file disguised as a document, such as a PDF, and execute arbitrary commands.
 (CVE-2017-14604)

 Note: This update will change the behavior of Nautilus. Nautilus will now prompt the user for confirmation when executing an untrusted .desktop file for the first time, and then add it to the trusted file list.
 Desktop files stored in the system directory, as specified by the XDG_DATA_DIRS environment variable, are always considered trusted and executed without prompt.

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 nautilus package based on the guidance in RHSA-2018:0223.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?a362e99c

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0223

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1490872

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 106336

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2018-0223.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/25/2018

Updated: 11/5/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-14604

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nautilus, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nautilus-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nautilus-extensions, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/25/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/20/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-14604

CWE: 345

RHSA: 2018:0223