RHEL 5 : gc in Satellite Server (RHSA-2014:0150)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 78997

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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 Proxy 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 Proxy provides a package-caching mechanism that reduces the bandwidth requirements for Red Hat Satellite and enables custom package deployment. Red Hat Satellite Proxy customers are able to cache RPM packages, such as are provided by Errata Updates from Red Hat, or custom RPM packages generated by their organization, on an internal, centrally-located server.

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 Network Proxy 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 Network Proxy must be restarted. Refer to the Solution section for details.

Solution

Update the affected gc package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 78997

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2014-0150.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 11/8/2014

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: 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: 2014:0150

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