RHEL 4 : cpio (RHSA-2005:073)

high Nessus Plugin ID 17181

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for cpio.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2005:073 advisory.

GNU cpio copies files into or out of a cpio or tar archive.

It was discovered that cpio uses a 0 umask when creating files using the -O (archive) option. This creates output files with mode 0666 (all can read and write) regardless of the user's umask setting. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CAN-1999-1572 to this issue.

Users of cpio should upgrade to this updated package, which resolves this issue.

Red Hat would like to thank Mike O'Connor for bringing this issue to our attention.

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 RHEL cpio package based on the guidance in RHSA-2005:073.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 17181

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2005-073.nasl

Version: 1.27

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 2/22/2005

Updated: 11/4/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-1999-1572

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cpio, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/15/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/16/1996

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-1999-1572

RHSA: 2005:073

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