RHEL 6 : qt (RHSA-2013:0669)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 65652

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for qt.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2013:0669 advisory.

- qt: QSharedMemory class created shared memory segments with insecure permissions (CVE-2013-0254)

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 RHEL qt package based on the guidance in RHSA-2013:0669.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?4926a176

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013:0669

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=907425

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 65652

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2013-0669.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/22/2013

Updated: 4/24/2024

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

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.6

Temporal Score: 2.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2013-0254

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt-examples, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt-sqlite, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt-postgresql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt-x11, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt-mysql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt-odbc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt-demos, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:phonon-backend-gstreamer

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: 3/21/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/6/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-0254

BID: 57772

RHSA: 2013:0669