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Oracle Linux 5 : glibc (ELSA-2011-0412)

high Nessus Plugin ID 68244

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2011-0412 advisory.

 - Avoid too much stack use in fnmatch (#681054, CVE-2011-1071)
 - Properly quote output of locale (#625893, CVE-2011-1095)
 - Don't leave empty element in rpath when skipping the first element, ignore rpath elements containing non-isolated use of when privileged (#667974, CVE-2011-0536)
 - Fix handling of newline in addmntent (#559579, CVE-2010-0296)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2011-0412.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 68244

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2011-0412.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/12/2013

Updated: 11/1/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2010-0296

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-1658

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:oracle:linux:5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:glibc-headers, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nscd, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:glibc-utils, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:glibc, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:glibc-common, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:glibc-devel

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/OracleLinux, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/5/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/1/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-0296, CVE-2011-0536, CVE-2011-1071, CVE-2011-1095, CVE-2011-1658, CVE-2011-1659

BID: 46563, 46740, 64465

RHSA: 2011:0412