RHEL 6 : rpm (RHSA-2012:0451)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 58586

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for rpm.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2012:0451 advisory.

The RPM Package Manager (RPM) is a command-line driven package management system capable of installing, uninstalling, verifying, querying, and updating software packages.

Multiple flaws were found in the way RPM parsed package file headers. An attacker could create a specially-crafted RPM package that, when its package header was accessed, or during package signature verification, could cause an application using the RPM library (such as the rpm command line tool, or the yum and up2date package managers) to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2012-0060, CVE-2012-0061, CVE-2012-0815)

Note: Although an RPM package can, by design, execute arbitrary code when installed, this issue would allow a specially-crafted RPM package to execute arbitrary code before its digital signature has been verified.
Package downloads from the Red Hat Network are protected by the use of a secure HTTPS connection in addition to the RPM package signature checks.

All RPM users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct these issues. All running applications linked against the RPM library must be restarted for this 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 these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL rpm package based on the guidance in RHSA-2012:0451.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 58586

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2012-0451.nasl

Version: 1.25

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 4/4/2012

Updated: 4/15/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-0815

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-0060

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rpm, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rpm-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rpm-build, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_mission_critical:5.3, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:3, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rpm-cron, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rpm-libs, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:5.6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:popt, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rpm-apidocs, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:6.1, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:6.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rpm-python

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: 4/3/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/4/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-0060, CVE-2012-0061, CVE-2012-0815

BID: 52865

CWE: 119

RHSA: 2012:0451

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