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RHEL 5 : mesa (RHSA-2013:0898)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 66773

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2013:0898 advisory.

 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.

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 RHEL mesa package based on the guidance in RHSA-2013:0898.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?d88b6a5c

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

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=961613

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 66773

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

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/3/2013

Updated: 3/20/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2013-1993

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

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-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, 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

CWE: 122

RHSA: 2013:0898