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RHEL 6 : libguestfs (RHSA-2011:0586)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 63981

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Synopsis

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

Description

Updated libguestfs packages that fix one security issue, several bugs, and add one enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

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.

libguestfs is a library for accessing and modifying guest disk images.

libguestfs relied on the format auto-detection in QEMU rather than allowing the guest image file format to be specified. A privileged guest user could potentially use this flaw to read arbitrary files on the host that were accessible to a user on that host who was running a program that utilized the libguestfs library. (CVE-2010-3851)

This erratum upgrades libguestfs to upstream version 1.7.17, which includes a number of bug fixes and one enhancement. Documentation for these bug fixes and this enhancement is provided in the Technical Notes document, linked to in the References section.

All libguestfs users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which correct this issue, and fix the bugs and add the enhancement noted in the Technical Notes.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2010-3851

http://www.nessus.org/u?056c0c27

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011:0586

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 63981

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2011-0586.nasl

Version: 1.15

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: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

Temporal Score: 3.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libguestfs-tools-c, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-sys-guestfs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libguestfs-java, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libguestfs-mount, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libguestfs-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby-libguestfs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ocaml-libguestfs-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libguestfs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-libguestfs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libguestfs-tools, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libguestfs-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:guestfish, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ocaml-libguestfs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libguestfs-javadoc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libguestfs-java-devel

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: 5/19/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/4/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-3851

BID: 44166

RHSA: 2011:0586