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RHEL 5 : spacewalk in Satellite Server (RHSA-2014:0149)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 78996

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

Updated gc packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Satellite 5.6.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having Moderate 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.

Red Hat Satellite is a systems management tool for Linux-based infrastructures. It allows for provisioning, remote management and monitoring of multiple Linux deployments with a single, centralized tool.

gc is a Boehm-Demers-Weiser conservative garbage collector for C and C++.

It was discovered that gc's implementation of the malloc() and calloc() routines did not properly perform parameter sanitization when allocating memory. If an application using gc did not implement application-level validity checks for the malloc() and calloc() routines, a remote attacker could provide specially crafted application-specific input, which, when processed by the application, could lead to an application crash or, potentially, arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the user running the application.
(CVE-2012-2673)

Users of Red Hat Satellite 5.6 are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue. For this update to take effect, Red Hat Satellite must be restarted. Refer to the Solution section for details.

Solution

Update the affected gc package.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-2673

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014:0149

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 78996

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2014-0149.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/8/2014

Updated: 1/14/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gc

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: 2/10/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-2673

BID: 54227

RHSA: 2014:0149