RHEL 5 : mcstrans (RHSA-2007:0542)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 27830

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2007:0542 advisory.

mcstrans is the translation daemon used on SELinux machines to translate program context into human readable form.

An algorithmic complexity weakness was found in the way the mcstrans daemon handled ranges of compartments in sensitivity labels. A local user could trigger this flaw causing mctransd to temporarily stop responding to other requests; a partial denial of service. (CVE-2007-4570)

This update also fixes a problem where the mcstrans daemon was preventing SSH connections into an SELinux box, that was running a Multi-Level Security (MLS) Policy with multiple categories.

Users of mcstrans are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which resolves this issue.

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 mcstrans package based on the guidance in RHSA-2007:0542.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 27830

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2007-0542.nasl

Version: 1.25

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 11/8/2007

Updated: 11/4/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 1.9

Temporal Score: 1.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2007-4570

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/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:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mcstrans

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/7/2007

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/9/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-4570

RHSA: 2007:0542

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