RHEL 6 : php-pear (RHSA-2011:1741)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 57021

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for php-pear.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2011:1741 advisory.

- php-pear: symlink vulnerability in PEAR installer (CVE-2011-1072)

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 php-pear package based on the guidance in RHSA-2011:1741.

See Also

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=651897

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=681982

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=747361

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011:1741

http://www.nessus.org/u?610aeae9

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 57021

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2011-1741.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/6/2011

Updated: 4/21/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.3

Temporal Score: 2.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-1072

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

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

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: 12/6/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/2/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1072

BID: 46605

RHSA: 2011:1741