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RHEL 5 : systemtap (RHSA-2011:0841)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 54929

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2011:0841 advisory.

 - systemtap: does not guard against DWARF operations div-by-zero errors, which can cause a kernel panic (CVE-2011-1769)

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 systemtap package based on the guidance in RHSA-2011:0841.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?3c247f06

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011:0841

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=702687

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 54929

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2011-0841.nasl

Version: 1.19

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/1/2011

Updated: 4/27/2024

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: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 1.2

Temporal Score: 0.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-1769

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: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:systemtap-initscript, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:systemtap-testsuite, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:systemtap-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:systemtap-runtime, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:systemtap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:systemtap-client, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:systemtap-sdt-devel

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/31/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/29/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1769

BID: 47934

RHSA: 2011:0841