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Oracle Linux 7 : policycoreutils (ELSA-2018-0913)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 109110

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2018-0913 advisory.

 [2.5-22.0.1]
 - Lazy unmount private, shared entry (Joe Jin) [orabug 12560705]

 [2.5-22]
 - semanage: Fix fcontext help message (#1499259)
 - semanage: Improve semanage-user.8 man page (#1079946)
 - semodule: Improve man page (#1337192)

 [2.5-21]
 - Update translations

 [2.5-20]
 - setfiles: Mention customizable types in restorecon man page (#1260238)
 - sepolicy: do not fail when file_contexts.local or .subs do not exist (#1512590)
 - semanage: Fix export of ibendport entries (#1471809)

 [2.5-19]
 - semanage: Call semanage_set_reload only if -N is used (#1421160)

 [2.5-18]
 - semanage: Enable listing file_contexts.homedirs
 - semanage: Fix manpage author for ibpkey and ibendport pages.
 - semanage: Update man pages for infiniband
 - semanage: Update semanage to allow runtime labeling of ibendports
 - semanage: Update semanage to allow runtime labeling of Infiniband Pkeys
 - semanage: Improve semanage-port man page
 - fixfiles: do not dereference link files in tmp

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle 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.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2018-0913.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 109110

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2018-0913.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/18/2018

Updated: 11/1/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Continuous 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:oracle:linux:policycoreutils-python, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:policycoreutils-restorecond, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:7, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:policycoreutils-gui, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:policycoreutils-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:policycoreutils-newrole, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:policycoreutils-sandbox, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:policycoreutils

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/17/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/2/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1063

RHSA: 2018:0913