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CentOS 6 : mesa (CESA-2013:0897)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 66775
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Synopsis
The remote CentOS 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 6.The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links 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.
An out-of-bounds access flaw was found in Mesa. If an application using Mesa exposed the Mesa API to untrusted inputs (Mozilla Firefox does this), an attacker could cause the application to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application. (CVE-2013-1872)
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 mesa packages.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 66775
File Name: centos_RHSA-2013-0897.nasl
Version: 1.11
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: CentOS Local Security Checks
Published: 6/4/2013
Updated: 1/4/2021
Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, 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
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2013-1872
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mesa-libglu, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mesa-libosmesa-devel, cpe:/o:centos:centos:6, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mesa-libosmesa, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mesa-demos, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mesa-libglu-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:glx-utils, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mesa-libgl-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mesa-dri-drivers, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mesa-dri-filesystem, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mesa-libgl
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/CentOS/release, Host/CentOS/rpm-list
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 6/3/2013
Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/15/2013
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2013-1872, CVE-2013-1993
RHSA: 2013:0897