RHEL 6 : Red Hat Enterprise MRG Messaging 2.3.3 (RHSA-2013:1024)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 76661

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for Red Hat Enterprise MRG Messaging 2.3.3.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2013:1024 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 discovered that the Qpid Python client library for AMQP did not properly perform TLS/SSL certificate validation of the remote server's certificate, even when the 'ssl_trustfile' connection option was specified.
A rogue server could use this flaw to conduct man-in-the-middle attacks, possibly leading to the disclosure of sensitive information.
(CVE-2013-1909)

With this update, Python programs can instruct the library to validate server certificates by specifying a path to a file containing trusted CA certificates.

This issue was discovered by Petr Matousek of the Red Hat MRG Messaging team.

This update also fixes multiple bugs. 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 2.3 are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve the issues 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 this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL Red Hat Enterprise MRG Messaging 2.3.3 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2013:1024.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 76661

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2013-1024.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 7/22/2014

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: Low

Score: 3.6

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2013-1909

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: 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:qpid-cpp-server-xml, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qpid-java-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qpid-cpp-client-rdma, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qpid-cpp-client-devel-docs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-qpid-qmf, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qpid-java, 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:qpid-cpp-client, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qpid-cpp, 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: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: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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/11/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/23/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-1909

BID: 60800

RHSA: 2013:1024

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