RHEL 5 : security update for Red Hat Network Satellite (Moderate) (RHSA-2011:0434)

high Nessus Plugin ID 210146

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2011:0434 advisory.

Red Hat Network Satellite (RHN Satellite) is a system management tool for Linux-based infrastructures. It allows for the provisioning, remote management and monitoring of multiple Linux deployments with a single, centralized tool.

RHN Satellite incorrectly exposed an obsolete XML-RPC API for configuring package group (comps.xml) files for channels. An authenticated user could use this flaw to gain access to arbitrary files accessible to the RHN Satellite server process, and prevent clients from performing certain yum operations. (CVE-2010-1171)

A flaw was found in the way RHN Satellite rewrote certain URLs. An unauthenticated user could use a specially-crafted HTTP request to obtain sensitive information about the host system RHN Satellite was running on.
They could also use RHN Satellite as a distributed denial of service tool, forcing it to connect to an arbitrary service at an arbitrary IP address via a specially-crafted HTTP request. (CVE-2009-0788)

Note: Refer to the Solution section below for manual steps that may be required to fully address the CVE-2009-0788 issue.

Users of RHN Satellite 5.3 and 5.4 are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues. The RHN Satellite server must be restarted (rhn-satellite restart) for this update to take effect.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 210146

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2011-0434.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 11/4/2024

Updated: 11/4/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2009-0788

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-backend-package-push-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-backend-app, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-backend-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-backend-xmlrpc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-backend-config-files, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-backend-config-files-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-backend, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-backend-upload-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-backend-sql-oracle, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-backend-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-backend-iss-export, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-backend-xml-export-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-backend-iss, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-backend-sql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-backend-xp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-backend-applet, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-backend-config-files-tool, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-config, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-backend-tools

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: 4/11/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/11/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-0788, CVE-2010-1171

RHSA: 2011:0434

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