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RHEL 5 : mesa (RHSA-2013:0898)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 66773

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Synopsis

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

Description

Updated mesa packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

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

Mesa provides a 3D graphics API that is compatible with Open Graphics Library (OpenGL). It also provides hardware-accelerated drivers for many popular graphics chips.

It was found that Mesa did not correctly validate messages from the X server. A malicious X server could cause an application using Mesa to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application. (CVE-2013-1993)

All users of Mesa are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues. All running applications linked against Mesa must be restarted for this update to take effect.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013:0898

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2013-1993

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 66773

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2013-0898.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/3/2013

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: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mesa-libgl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mesa-libglw, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:glx-utils, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mesa-libglu, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mesa-libglw-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mesa-debuginfo, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5.9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mesa-libgl-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mesa-libosmesa, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mesa-source, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mesa-libglu-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mesa-libosmesa-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: 6/3/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-1993

BID: 60149

RHSA: 2013:0898