RHEL 5 : rgmanager (RHSA-2009:1339)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 63893

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2009:1339 advisory.

The rgmanager package contains the Red Hat Resource Group Manager, which provides high availability for critical server applications in the event of system downtime.

Multiple insecure temporary file use flaws were discovered in rgmanager and various resource scripts run by rgmanager. A local attacker could use these flaws to overwrite an arbitrary file writable by the rgmanager process (i.e. user root) with the output of rgmanager or a resource agent via a symbolic link attack. (CVE-2008-6552)

This update also fixes the following bugs:

* clulog now accepts '-' as the first character in messages.

* if expire_time is 0, max_restarts is no longer ignored.

* the SAP resource agents included in the rgmanager package shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 were outdated. This update includes the most recent SAP resource agents and, consequently, improves SAP failover support.

* empty PID files no longer cause resource start failures.

* recovery policy of type 'restart' now works properly when using a resource based on ra-skelet.sh.

* samba.sh has been updated to kill the PID listed in the proper PID file.

* handling of the '-F' option has been improved to fix issues causing rgmanager to crash if no members of a restricted failover domain were online.

* the number of simultaneous status checks can now be limited to prevent load spikes.

* forking and cloning during status checks has been optimized to reduce load spikes.

* rg_test no longer hangs when run with large cluster configuration files.

* when rgmanager is used with a restricted failover domain it will no longer occasionally segfault when some nodes are offline during a failover event.

* virtual machine guests no longer restart after a cluster.conf update.

* nfsclient.sh no longer leaves temporary files after running.

* extra checks from the Oracle agents have been removed.

* vm.sh now uses libvirt.

* users can now define an explicit service processing order when central_processing is enabled.

* virtual machine guests can no longer start on 2 nodes at the same time.

* in some cases a successfully migrated virtual machine guest could restart when the cluster.conf file was updated.

* incorrect reporting of a service being started when it was not started has been addressed.

As well, this update adds the following enhancements:

* a startup_wait option has been added to the MySQL resource agent.

* services can now be prioritized.

* rgmanager now checks to see if it has been killed by the OOM killer and if so, reboots the node.

Users of rgmanager are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which resolves these issues and adds these enhancements.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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 affected rgmanager package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 63893

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2009-1339.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 1/24/2013

Updated: 3/24/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Temporal Score: 5.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2008-6552

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rgmanager

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

Patch Publication Date: 9/2/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-6552

CWE: 377

RHSA: 2009:1339

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