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Oracle Linux 6 : cifs-utils (ELSA-2012-0902)

low Nessus Plugin ID 68560

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2012-0902 advisory.

 [4.8.1-10]
 - mount.cifs: don't allow unprivileged users to mount onto dirs they can't chdir into (bz 812782)

 [4.8.1-9]
 - cifs.upcall: use krb5_sname_to_principal to construct principal name (bz 805490)

 [4.8.1-8]
 - mount.cifs: add backupuid=/backupgid= mount options (bz 806337)

 [4.8.1-7]
 - RFE: Improve selection of SPNs with cifs.upcall (bz 748757)
 - mount.cifs does not use KRB5_CONFIG (bz 748756) [creates additional entries in /etc/mtab (bz 770004)]
 - mount.cifs does not honor the uid/gid=username option, only the uid/gid=# option (bz 796463)

 [4.8.1-6]
 - undocumented mount.cifs options (bz 769923)

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 cifs-utils package.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2012-0902.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 68560

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2012-0902.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

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: 2.2

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-2012-1586

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.3

Temporal Score: 3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:cifs-utils, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:6

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: 7/2/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/27/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-1586

BID: 52742, 53246

RHSA: 2012:0902