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CentOS 5 : mesa (CESA-2013:0898)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 66776

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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 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 mesa packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?58d563af

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 66776

File Name: centos_RHSA-2013-0898.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/4/2013

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, 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-2013-1993

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mesa-libglu, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mesa-source, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mesa-libosmesa-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mesa-libosmesa, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mesa-libglu-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mesa-libglw, cpe:/o:centos:centos:5, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mesa-libgl-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:glx-utils, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mesa-libglw-devel, 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-2013-1993

BID: 60149

RHSA: 2013:0898