CentOS 4 / 5 : tog-pegasus (CESA-2008:0002)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 29931

Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Updated tog-pegasus packages that fix a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5.

This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

The tog-pegasus packages provide OpenPegasus Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) services. WBEM is a platform and resource independent DMTF standard that defines a common information model, and communication protocol for monitoring and controlling resources.

During a security audit, a stack-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the PAM authentication code in the OpenPegasus CIM management server. An unauthenticated remote user could trigger this flaw and potentially execute arbitrary code with root privileges.
(CVE-2008-0003)

Note that the tog-pegasus packages are not installed by default on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The Red Hat Security Response Team believes that it would be hard to remotely exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code, due to the default SELinux targeted policy on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5, and the SELinux memory protection tests enabled by default on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Users of tog-pegasus should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to resolve this issue. After installing the updated packages the tog-pegasus service should be restarted.

Solution

Update the affected tog-pegasus packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 29931

File Name: centos_RHSA-2008-0002.nasl

Version: 1.21

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: CentOS Local Security Checks

Published: 1/14/2008

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:tog-pegasus, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:tog-pegasus-devel, cpe:/o:centos:centos:4, cpe:/o:centos:centos:5, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:tog-pegasus-test

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/14/2008

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/8/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-0003

BID: 27172

CWE: 119

RHSA: 2008:0002

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