RHEL 2.1 : mm (RHSA-2002:154)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 12314

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Updated mm packages are now available for Red Hat Linux Advanced Server. This update addresses possible vulnerabilities in how the MM library opens temporary files.

The MM library provides an abstraction layer which allows related processes to easily share data. On systems where shared memory or other inter-process communication mechanisms are not available, the MM library will emulate them using temporary files. MM is used in Red Hat Linux to providing shared memory pools to Apache modules.

Versions of MM up to and including 1.1.3 open temporary files in an unsafe manner, allowing a malicious local user to cause an application which uses MM to overwrite any file to which it has write access.

All users are advised to upgrade to these errata packages which contain a patched version of MM that is not vulnerable to this issue.

Thanks to Marcus Meissner for providing a patch for this issue.

Solution

Update the affected mm and / or mm-devel packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 12314

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2002-154.nasl

Version: 1.24

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 7/6/2004

Updated: 1/14/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.2

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mm, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:2.1, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mm-devel

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

Patch Publication Date: 7/26/2002

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/12/2002

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2002-0658

RHSA: 2002:154

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