Scientific Linux Security Update : qpid on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120919)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 62218

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Synopsis

The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Apache Qpid is a reliable, cross-platform, asynchronous messaging system that supports the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) in several common programming languages.

It was discovered that the Qpid daemon (qpidd) did not allow the number of connections from clients to be restricted. A malicious client could use this flaw to open an excessive amount of connections, preventing other legitimate clients from establishing a connection to qpidd. (CVE-2012-2145)

To address CVE-2012-2145, new qpidd configuration options were introduced: max-negotiate-time defines the time during which initial protocol negotiation must succeed, connection-limit-per-user and connection-limit-per-ip can be used to limit the number of connections per user and client host IP. Refer to the qpidd manual page for additional details.

In addition, the qpid-cpp, qpid-qmf, qpid-tools, and python-qpid packages have been upgraded to upstream version 0.14, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version.

All users of qpid are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these issues and add these enhancements.

For dependency resolution saslwrapper, saslwrapper-devel, python-saslwrapper, and ruby-saslwrapper have been added to this update

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 62218

File Name: sl_20120919_qpid_on_SL6_x.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Scientific Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 9/21/2012

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:python-qpid, p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:python-qpid-qmf, p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:qpid-cpp-client, p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:qpid-cpp-client-ssl, p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:qpid-cpp-server, p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:qpid-cpp-server-ssl, p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:qpid-qmf, p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:qpid-tools, p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:ruby-qpid-qmf, x-cpe:/o:fermilab:scientific_linux

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

Patch Publication Date: 9/19/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/28/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-2145

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