RHEL 4 / 5 : xmlsec1 (RHSA-2011:0486)

high Nessus Plugin ID 53646

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for xmlsec1.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 / 5 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2011:0486 advisory.

The XML Security Library is a C library based on libxml2 and OpenSSL that implements the XML Digital Signature and XML Encryption standards.

A flaw was found in the way xmlsec1 handled XML files that contain an XSLT transformation specification. A specially-crafted XML file could cause xmlsec1 to create or overwrite an arbitrary file while performing the verification of a file's digital signature. (CVE-2011-1425)

Red Hat would like to thank Nicolas Grgoire and Aleksey Sanin for reporting this issue.

This update also fixes the following bug:

* xmlsec1 previously used an incorrect search path when searching for crypto plug-in libraries, possibly trying to access such libraries using a relative path. (BZ#558480, BZ#700467)

Users of xmlsec1 should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues. After installing the update, all running applications that use the xmlsec1 library must be restarted for the 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 this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL xmlsec1 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2011:0486.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 53646

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2011-0486.nasl

Version: 1.23

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 5/5/2011

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: Medium

Score: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

Temporal Score: 4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-1425

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xmlsec1-nss-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xmlsec1, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xmlsec1-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xmlsec1-nss, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xmlsec1-gnutls-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xmlsec1-openssl-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xmlsec1-openssl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xmlsec1-gnutls

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/4/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/4/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1425

BID: 47135

RHSA: 2011:0486

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