Fedora 13 : myproxy-5.3-1.fc13 (2011-0512)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 51678

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Release 5.3 fixes a myproxy-logon security bug in MyProxy versions 5.0-5.2 that disabled server identity verification :

The myproxy-logon program in MyProxy versions 5.0 through 5.2 does not enforce the check that the myproxy-server's certificate contains the expected hostname or identity. The impacted MyProxy versions are included in Globus Toolkit releases 5.0.0-5.0.2. This issue is addressed in MyProxy 5.3.

Full details are available:
http://grid.ncsa.illinois.edu/myproxy/security/myproxy-adv-2011-01.txt

Other changes in this release :

- if myproxy-logon GSI mutual authentication with the myproxy-server fails, try again with client-side anonymous authentication, in case the client-side GSI credentials are unacceptable to the myproxy-server (for example, signed by an untrusted CA), but the myproxy-server would accept an anonymous client (http://bugzilla.globus.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=710 3)

- fix configure checks for globus_usage_stats_send, globus_usage_stats_send_array, and globus_gsi_proxy_handle_set_extensions when installing without existing Globus libraries in LD_LIBRARY_PATH (http://bugzilla.globus.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7 098)

- in myproxy-server-setup, look in /sbin and /usr/sbin for chkconfig or update-rc.d in case they're not in PATH

- add certificate_issuer_subca_certfile option in myproxy-server.config (http://bugzilla.globus.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7 119)

- make all Globus Usage library errors non-fatal (http://bugzilla.globus.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7 111)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected myproxy package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 51678

File Name: fedora_2011-0512.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 1/27/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:myproxy, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:13

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/18/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-0738

BID: 45916

FEDORA: 2011-0512

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