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Oracle Linux 6 : spice-gtk (ELSA-2012-1284)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 68628

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Synopsis

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

Description

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2012:1284 :

Updated spice-gtk packages that fix one security issue 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.

The spice-gtk packages provide a GIMP Toolkit (GTK+) widget for SPICE (Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments) clients. Both Virtual Machine Manager and Virtual Machine Viewer can make use of this widget to access virtual machines using the SPICE protocol.

It was discovered that the spice-gtk setuid helper application, spice-client-glib-usb-acl-helper, did not clear the environment variables read by the libraries it uses. A local attacker could possibly use this flaw to escalate their privileges by setting specific environment variables before running the helper application.
(CVE-2012-4425)

Red Hat would like to thank Sebastian Krahmer of the SUSE Security Team for reporting this issue.

All users of spice-gtk are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue.

Solution

Update the affected spice-gtk packages.

See Also

https://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/el-errata/2012-September/003036.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 68628

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2012-1284.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/12/2013

Updated: 1/14/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Temporal Score: 5.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:spice-glib-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:spice-gtk-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:spice-gtk-python, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:spice-glib, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:spice-gtk, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:spice-gtk-tools, 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: 9/17/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/18/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-4425

BID: 55517, 55555

RHSA: 2012:1284