Oracle Linux 6 : qpid (ELSA-2012-1269)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 68626

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Synopsis

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

Description

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2012:1269 :

Updated qpid packages that fix one security issue, multiple bugs, and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

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.

Apache Qpid is a reliable, cross-platform, asynchronous messaging system that supports the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) in several common programming languages.

It was discovered that the Qpid daemon (qpidd) did not allow the number of connections from clients to be restricted. A malicious client could use this flaw to open an excessive amount of connections, preventing other legitimate clients from establishing a connection to qpidd. (CVE-2012-2145)

To address CVE-2012-2145, new qpidd configuration options were introduced: max-negotiate-time defines the time during which initial protocol negotiation must succeed, connection-limit-per-user and connection-limit-per-ip can be used to limit the number of connections per user and client host IP. Refer to the qpidd manual page for additional details.

In addition, the qpid-cpp, qpid-qmf, qpid-tools, and python-qpid packages have been upgraded to upstream version 0.14, which provides support for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.2, as well as a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. (BZ#840053, BZ#840055, BZ#840056, BZ#840058)

All users of qpid are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these issues and add these enhancements.

Solution

Update the affected qpid packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 68626

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2012-1269.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Oracle Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 7/12/2013

Updated: 1/14/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ruby-qpid-qmf, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python-qpid, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qpid-cpp-client, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qpid-tools, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python-qpid-qmf, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qpid-cpp-client-ssl, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qpid-cpp-server-ssl, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qpid-cpp-server, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qpid-qmf, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:6

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: 9/19/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/28/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-2145

BID: 55608

RHSA: 2012:1269

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