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RHEL 5 : conga (RHSA-2011:0394)

high Nessus Plugin ID 63975

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Synopsis

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

Description

Updated conga packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important 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.

The conga packages provide a web-based administration tool for remote cluster and storage management.

A privilege escalation flaw was found in luci, the Conga web-based administration application. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to obtain administrative access, allowing them to read, create, or modify the content of the luci application. (CVE-2011-0720)

Users of Conga are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to resolve this issue. After installing the updated packages, luci must be restarted ('service luci restart') for the update to take effect.

Solution

Update the affected luci and / or ricci packages.

See Also

https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2011-0720.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0394.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 63975

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2011-0394.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/24/2013

Updated: 1/14/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ricci, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:luci, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5.6

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/28/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-0720

RHSA: 2011:0394