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RHEL 7 : policycoreutils (RHSA-2018:0913)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 108991
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Synopsis
The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.Description
The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2018:0913 advisory.- policycoreutils: Relabelling of symbolic links in /tmp and /var/tmp change the context of their target instead (CVE-2018-1063)
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 affected packages.See Also
http://www.nessus.org/u?2802e9bb
http://www.nessus.org/u?d74c2895
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0913
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1260238
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1337192
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1376770
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1409813
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1458831
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1471809
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1481191
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1499259
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 108991
File Name: redhat-RHSA-2018-0913.nasl
Version: 1.9
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks
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: Low
Score: 2.5
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Low
Base Score: 3.3
Temporal Score: 2.4
Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-1063
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 4.4
Temporal Score: 3.9
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:policycoreutils, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:policycoreutils-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:policycoreutils-gui, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:policycoreutils-newrole, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:policycoreutils-python, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:policycoreutils-restorecond, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:policycoreutils-sandbox, 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: 3/2/2018
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2018-1063