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CentOS 5 : sos (CESA-2012:0153)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 63564

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.

Description

An updated sos package that fixes one security issue, several bugs, and adds various enhancements is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having low security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

Sos is a set of tools that gather information about system hardware and configuration.

The sosreport utility incorrectly included Certificate-based Red Hat Network private entitlement keys in the resulting archive of debugging information. An attacker able to access the archive could use the keys to access Red Hat Network content available to the host. This issue did not affect users of Red Hat Network Classic. (CVE-2011-4083)

This updated sos package also includes numerous bug fixes and enhancements. Space precludes documenting all of these changes in this advisory. Users are directed to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8 Technical Notes, linked to in the References, for information on the most significant of these changes.

All sos users are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which resolves these issues and adds these enhancements.

Solution

Update the affected sos package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?8ebf92dd

http://www.nessus.org/u?dd94dcbc

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 63564

File Name: centos_RHSA-2012-0153.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/17/2013

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-4083

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:centos:centos:5, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:sos

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/9/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/17/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-4083

BID: 50936

RHSA: 2012:0153