Amazon Linux AMI : mesa (ALAS-2013-198)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 69756

Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.

Description

An out-of-bounds access flaw was found in Mesa. If an application using Mesa exposed the Mesa API to untrusted inputs (Mozilla Firefox does this), an attacker could cause the application to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application. (CVE-2013-1872)

It was found that Mesa did not correctly validate messages from the X server. A malicious X server could cause an application using Mesa to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application. (CVE-2013-1993)

Solution

Run 'yum update mesa' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2013-198.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 69756

File Name: ala_ALAS-2013-198.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/4/2013

Updated: 4/18/2018

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:glx-utils, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:mesa-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:mesa-libgl, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:mesa-libgl-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:mesa-libglu, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:mesa-libglu-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:mesa-libosmesa, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:mesa-libosmesa-devel, cpe:/o:amazon:linux

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

Patch Publication Date: 6/11/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-1872, CVE-2013-1993

ALAS: 2013-198

RHSA: 2013:0897