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RHEL 6 : RDMA stack (RHSA-2013:1661)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 71015

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2013:1661 advisory.

 Red Hat Enterprise Linux includes a collection of Infiniband and iWARP utilities, libraries and development packages for writing applications that use Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) technology.

 A flaw was found in the way ibutils handled temporary files. A local attacker could use this flaw to cause arbitrary files to be overwritten as the root user via a symbolic link attack. (CVE-2013-2561)

 It was discovered that librdmacm used a static port to connect to the ib_acm service. A local attacker able to run a specially crafted ib_acm service on that port could use this flaw to provide incorrect address resolution information to librmdacm applications. (CVE-2012-4516)

 The CVE-2012-4516 issue was discovered by Florian Weimer of the Red Hat Product Security Team.

 This advisory updates the following packages to the latest upstream releases, providing a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous versions:

 * libibverbs-1.1.7
 * libmlx4-1.0.5
 * librdmacm-1.0.17
 * mstflint-3.0
 * perftest-2.0
 * qperf-0.4.9
 * rdma-3.10

 Several bugs have been fixed in the openmpi, mpitests, ibutils, and infinipath-psm packages.

 The most notable changes in these updated packages from the RDMA stack are the following:

 * Multiple bugs in the Message Passing Interface (MPI) test packages were resolved, allowing more of the mpitest applications to pass on the underlying MPI implementations.

 * The libmlx4 package now includes dracut module files to ensure that any necessary custom configuration of mlx4 port types is included in the initramfs dracut builds.

 * Multiple test programs in the perftest and qperf packages now work properly over RoCE interfaces, or when specifying the use of rdmacm queue pairs.

 * The mstflint package has been updated to the latest upstream version, which is now capable of burning firmware on newly released Mellanox Connect-IB hardware.

 * A compatibility problem between the openmpi and infinipath-psm packages has been resolved with new builds of these packages.

 All RDMA users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues and add these enhancements.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise 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 packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?240e709e

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013:1661

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=865483

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=927430

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 71015

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2013-1661.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/21/2013

Updated: 11/4/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Temporal Score: 4.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2013-2561

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-4516

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mpitests-mvapich2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mpitests, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rdma, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qperf, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ibutils-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:librdmacm, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:librdmacm-static, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:infinipath-psm, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:librdmacm-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:librdmacm-utils, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libmlx4-static, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perftest, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mpitests-mvapich, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openmpi-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:infinipath-psm-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openmpi, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mstflint, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libibverbs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mpitests-mvapich2-psm, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libibverbs-devel-static, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libibverbs-utils, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mpitests-openmpi, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ibutils, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mpitests-mvapich-psm, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ibutils-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libibverbs-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libmlx4

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/21/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/22/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-4516, CVE-2013-2561

BID: 55896, 58335

RHSA: 2013:1661