RHEL 7 : nautilus (RHSA-2018:0223)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 106336

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: Insufficient validation of trust of .desktop files with execute permission (CVE-2017-14604)

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: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/25/2018

Updated: 4/27/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

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