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RHEL 6 : Red Hat Enterprise MRG Messaging 2.3 (RHSA-2013:0562)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 76655

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for Red Hat Enterprise MRG Messaging 2.3.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2013:0562 advisory.

 Red Hat Enterprise MRG (Messaging, Realtime, and Grid) is a next-generation IT infrastructure for enterprise computing. MRG offers increased performance, reliability, interoperability, and faster computing for enterprise customers.

 MRG Messaging is a high-speed reliable messaging distribution for Linux based on AMQP (Advanced Message Queuing Protocol), an open protocol standard for enterprise messaging that is designed to make mission critical messaging widely available as a standard service, and to make enterprise messaging interoperable across platforms, programming languages, and vendors. MRG Messaging includes an AMQP 0-10 messaging broker; AMQP 0-10 client libraries for C++, Java JMS, and Python; as well as persistence libraries and management tools.

 It was found that the Apache Qpid daemon (qpidd) treated AMQP connections with the federation_tag attribute set as a broker-to-broker connection, rather than a client-to-server connection. This resulted in the source user ID of messages not being checked. A client that can establish an AMQP connection with the broker could use this flaw to bypass intended authentication. For Condor users, if condor-aviary is installed, this flaw could be used to submit jobs that would run as any user (except root, as Condor does not run jobs as root). (CVE-2012-4446)

 It was found that the AMQP type decoder in qpidd allowed arbitrary data types in certain messages. A remote attacker could use this flaw to send a message containing an excessively large amount of data, causing qpidd to allocate a large amount of memory. qpidd would then be killed by the Out of Memory killer (denial of service). (CVE-2012-4458)

 An integer overflow flaw, leading to an out-of-bounds read, was found in the Qpid qpid::framing::Buffer::checkAvailable() function. An unauthenticated, remote attacker could send a specially-crafted message to Qpid, causing it to crash. (CVE-2012-4459)

 The CVE-2012-4446, CVE-2012-4458, and CVE-2012-4459 issues were discovered by Florian Weimer of the Red Hat Product Security Team.

 This update also fixes several bugs and adds enhancements. Documentation for these changes will be available shortly from the Technical Notes document linked to in the References section.

 All users of the Messaging capabilities of Red Hat Enterprise MRG are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve these issues, and fix the bugs and add the enhancements noted in the Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2 Technical Notes. After installing the updated packages, stop the cluster by either running service qpidd stop on all nodes, or qpid-cluster --all-stop on any one of the cluster nodes. Once stopped, restart the cluster with service qpidd start on all nodes for the update to take effect.

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 RHEL Red Hat Enterprise MRG Messaging 2.3 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2013:0562.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?46570f69

http://www.nessus.org/u?96c80b5c

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013:0562

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=851355

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=861234

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=861241

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 76655

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2013-0562.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/22/2014

Updated: 11/4/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.8

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-4446

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:saslwrapper, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qpid-cpp-server-store, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qpid-cpp-client-ssl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qpid-cpp-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qpid-cpp-server-rdma, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xqilla, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qpid-cpp-server-xml, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qpid-java-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qpid-tests, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qpid-cpp-client-rdma, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qpid-jca, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qpid-cpp-client-devel-docs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:saslwrapper-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rhm-docs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xqilla-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cumin-messaging, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-qpid-qmf, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby-saslwrapper, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qpid-java, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qpid-jca-xarecovery, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qpid-cpp-server-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qpid-tools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby-qpid-qmf, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xerces-c-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygems, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qpid-cpp-client, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-saslwrapper, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qpid-cpp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xerces-c, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qpid-cpp-server-cluster, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qpid-java-client, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-rake, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xerces-c-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qpid-cpp-client-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qpid-java-example, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-qpid, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mrg-release, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xqilla-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qpid-qmf-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qpid-cpp-server-ssl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qpid-qmf

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/6/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/13/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-4446, CVE-2012-4458, CVE-2012-4459

RHSA: 2013:0562