RHEL 6 : rsync (RHSA-2011:0390)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 53204

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2011:0390 advisory.

- rsync: Incremental file-list corruption due to temporary file_extra_cnt increments (CVE-2011-1097)

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 rsync package based on the guidance in RHSA-2011:0390.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?2b90e1c9

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=675036

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011:0390

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 53204

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2011-0390.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/29/2011

Updated: 4/21/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-1097

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rsync, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/28/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/30/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1097

RHSA: 2011:0390