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RHEL 5 : piranha (RHSA-2014:0174)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 78998

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Synopsis

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

Description

An updated piranha package that fixes one security issue is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

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.

Piranha provides high-availability and load-balancing services for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The piranha packages contain various tools to administer and configure the Linux Virtual Server (LVS), as well as the heartbeat and failover components. LVS is a dynamically-adjusted kernel routing mechanism that provides load balancing, primarily for Web and FTP servers.

It was discovered that the Piranha Configuration Tool did not properly restrict access to its web pages. A remote attacker able to connect to the Piranha Configuration Tool web server port could use this flaw to read or modify the LVS configuration without providing valid administrative credentials. (CVE-2013-6492)

All piranha users are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which contains a backported patch to correct this issue.

Solution

Update the affected piranha and / or piranha-debuginfo packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014:0174

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2013-6492

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 78998

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2014-0174.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

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: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/13/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-6492

BID: 65587

RHSA: 2014:0174