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RHEL 6 : udisks (RHSA-2014:0293)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 73011

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Synopsis

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

Description

Updated udisks 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 Important 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 udisks package provides a daemon, a D-Bus API, and command line utilities for managing disks and storage devices.

A stack-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way udisks handled files with long path names. A malicious, local user could use this flaw to create a specially crafted directory structure that, when processed by the udisks daemon, could lead to arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the udisks daemon (root). (CVE-2014-0004)

This issue was discovered by Florian Weimer of the Red Hat Product Security Team.

All udisks users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014:0293

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2014-0004

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 73011

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2014-0293.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/14/2014

Updated: 1/14/2021

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: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Temporal Score: 6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:udisks-devel-docs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:udisks, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:udisks-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:udisks-debuginfo, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.5

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: 3/13/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/11/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-0004

BID: 66081

RHSA: 2014:0293