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Oracle Linux 6 : pam (ELSA-2013-0521)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 68757

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2013-0521 advisory.

 - fix environment file handling problems - CVE-2011-3148 (#746619) and CVE-2011-3148 (#746620)

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 pam and / or pam-devel packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2013-0521.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 68757

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2013-0521.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/12/2013

Updated: 10/22/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-3148

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:N/I:N/A:H

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-3149

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:pam, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:6, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:pam-devel

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: 2/25/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/22/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-3148, CVE-2011-3149

BID: 50343

RHSA: 2013:0521