Oracle Linux 6 : libguestfs (ELSA-2012-0774)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 68548

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2012-0774 advisory.

[1:1.16.19-1]
- Rebase to libguestfs 1.16.19 resolves: rhbz#719879
- Rebuild against augeas 0.9.0-3.el6 related: rhbz#808662
- Fix: Don't abort inspection if mdadm.conf ARRAY doesn't have a uuid.
- Switch back to git for patch management.

[1:1.16.18-2]
- Rebase to libguestfs 1.16.18 resolves: rhbz#719879
- Fix: guestfs_last_error not set when qemu fails early during launch resolves: rhbz#811673
- Fix: RFE: virt-sysprep: hostname can not be changed on rhel system (RHBZ#811112)
- Fix: RFE: virt-sysprep: net-hwaddr not removed from ifcfg-* files on rhel (RHBZ#811117)
- Fix: inspection fails on ubuntu 10.04 guest with encrypted swap (RHBZ#811872)
- Fix: cannot open disk images which are symlinks to files that contain ':' (colon) character (RHBZ#812092)
- BR gettext-devel so we can rerun autoconf.

[1:1.16.15-1]
- Rebase to libguestfs 1.16.15 resolves: rhbz#719879
- Fix: inspection doesn't recognize Fedora 17+ (RHBZ#809401)

[1:1.16.14-1]
- Rebase to libguestfs 1.16.14 resolves: rhbz#719879
- virt-sysprep should use virt-inspector2 resolves: rhbz#807557
- Fix: mkfs blocksize option breaks when creating btrfs resolves: rhbz#807905

[1:1.16.12-1]
- Rebase to libguestfs 1.16.12 resolves: rhbz#719879
- Fix: could not locate HKLM\SYSTEM\MountedDevices resolves: rhbz#803699

[1:1.16.10-1]
- Rebase to libguestfs 1.16.10 resolves: rhbz#719879
- Fix: libguestfs holds open file descriptors when handle is launched resolves: rhbz#801788
- Fix: Document for set-pgroup need to be updated resolves: rhbz#801273
- Fix: Possible null dereference and resource leaks resolves: rhbz#801298

[1:1.16.8-1]
- Rebase to libguestfs 1.16.8 resolves: rhbz#719879
- Fix set_autosync function so it is not 'ConfigOnly' resolves: rhbz#796520
- Fix header compilation for C++ resolves: rhbz#799695

[1:1.16.6-1]
- Rebase to libguesfs 1.16.6 resolves: rhbz#798197, rhbz#797760,rhbz#790958,rhbz#798980,rhbz#795322,rhbz#796520
- Fix virt-inspector2 man page.

[1:1.16.5-1]
- Rebase to libguestfs 1.16.5 resolves: rhbz#679737, rhbz#789960

[1:1.16.4-1]
- Rebase to libguestfs 1.16.4 resolves: rhbz#788642

[1:1.16.3-1]
- Rebase to libguestfs 1.16.3 resolves: rhbz#679737, rhbz#769359, rhbz#785305

[1:1.16.2-1]
- Rebase to libguestfs 1.16.2 resolves: rhbz#719879

[1:1.16.1-1]
- Rebase to libguestfs 1.16.1
- Disable tests (probably because we are hitting https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2010-02/threads.html#00823 ) resolves: rhbz#719879

[1:1.14.7-4]
- Continue with rebase to libguestfs 1.14.7 resolves: rhbz#719879

[1:1.14.7-1]
- Rebase to libguestfs 1.14.7 resolves: rhbz#719879

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle 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 affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 68548

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2012-0774.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Oracle Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 7/12/2013

Updated: 10/22/2024

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-2690

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libguestfs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libguestfs-tools, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libguestfs-java, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python-libguestfs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libguestfs-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libguestfs-java-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libguestfs-tools-c, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-sys-guestfs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ruby-libguestfs, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:6, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocaml-libguestfs-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocaml-libguestfs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libguestfs-javadoc

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/2/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/29/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-2690

BID: 53932

RHSA: 2012:0774

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