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.

The policycoreutils packages contain the core policy utilities required to manage a SELinux environment.

Security Fix(es):

* policycoreutils: Relabelling of symbolic links in /tmp and /var/tmp change the context of their target instead (CVE-2018-1063)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

This issue was discovered by Renaud Mtrich (Red Hat).

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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 affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 108991

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2018-0913.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 4/11/2018

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.5

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

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, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:policycoreutils-python, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:policycoreutils-sandbox, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:policycoreutils-restorecond, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:policycoreutils-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:policycoreutils-newrole, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:policycoreutils-gui

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: 4/10/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/2/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1063

CWE: 282

RHSA: 2018:0913

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