RHEL 7 : xdg-user-dirs (RHSA-2018:0842)

high Nessus Plugin ID 108987

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for xdg-user-dirs.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2018:0842 advisory.

- xdg-user-dirs, gnome-session: Xsession creation of XDG user directories does not honor system umask policy (CVE-2017-15131)

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 xdg-user-dirs package based on the guidance in RHSA-2018:0842.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?5a6b58d9

http://www.nessus.org/u?d74c2895

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0842

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1412762

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1455094

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 108987

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2018-0842.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/11/2018

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: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-15131

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xdg-user-dirs, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7

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

Patch Publication Date: 4/10/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/9/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-15131

CWE: 266

RHSA: 2018:0842