Oracle Linux 5 : rgmanager (ELSA-2009-1339)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 181076

Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2009-1339 advisory.

[2.0.52-1.0.1]
- Update summary and description to be vendor neutral

[2.0.52-1]
- When vm.sh does a status check and gets 'no state' it is now treated as a running state.
- Resolves: rhb#514044

[2.0.51-1]
- In some cases virtual machines will be restarted after a successful migration when the cluster configuration is updated.
- Resolves: rhbz#505340

[2.0.50-1]
- Extra checks from the oracle agents have been removed.
- Several fixes to prevent DOS attacks through insecure use of /tmp/ files have been implemented.
- vm.sh now uses libvirt
- Users can now define an explicit service processing order when central_processing is enabled
- Resolves: rhbz#470917 rhbz#412911 rhbz#468691 rhbz#492828

[2.0.49-1]
- Rgmanger now checks to see if it has been killed by the OOM killer and if so, reboots the node.
- Resolves: rhbz#488072

[2.0.48-1]
- clulog now accepts '-' as the first character in messages.
- If expire_time is 0 max_restarts is no longer ignored.
- SAP scripts have been updated.
- Empty PID files no longer cause resource start failures.
- Recovery policy of type restart now works properly when using a resource based on ra-skelet.sh
- startup_wait option has been added to the mysql resource agent.
- samba.sh now kills the pid listed in the proper pid file.
- Handling of '-F' has been improved to fix issues with rgmanager crashing if no members of a restricted failover domain are online and rgmanager failing to correctly restart service is they fail on the first node.
- Enabled ability to prioritize services.
- It is now possible to cap the number of simultaneious status checks to prevent load spikes.
- Enabling a frozen service no longer fails and leaves the service in a failed state.
- Forking and cloning during status checks has been optimized to reduce load spikes.
- rg_test no longers hangs when running against a cluster due to the removal of an 8MB memory cap.
- Resolves: rhbz#471431 rhbz#475826 rhbz#474444 rhbz#449394 rhbz#481058 rhbz#483093 rhbz#486711 rhbz#486717 rhbz#482858 rhbz#487598 rhbz#488714 rhbz#250718 rhbz#490455

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 rgmanager package.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2009-1339.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 181076

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2009-1339.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/7/2023

Updated: 10/22/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Temporal Score: 5.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2008-6552

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:oracle:linux:5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:rgmanager

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: 9/8/2009

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/7/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-6552