RHEL 5 : ibutils (RHSA-2012:0311)

high Nessus Plugin ID 58065

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2012:0311 advisory.

- ibutils: insecure relative RPATH (CVE-2008-3277)

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 ibutils package based on the guidance in RHSA-2012:0311.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?89d57b7f

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012:0311

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457935

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 58065

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2012-0311.nasl

Version: 1.20

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/21/2012

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: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

Temporal Score: 3.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2008-3277

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/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:ibutils, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ibutils-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ibutils-libs

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/21/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/15/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-3277

RHSA: 2012:0311