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CentOS 5 / 6 : rpm (CESA-2014:1974)

high Nessus Plugin ID 79843

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Updated rpm packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.

Red Hat Product Security 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.

The RPM Package Manager (RPM) is a powerful command line driven package management system capable of installing, uninstalling, verifying, querying, and updating software packages. Each software package consists of an archive of files along with information about the package such as its version, description, and other information.

It was found that RPM wrote file contents to the target installation directory under a temporary name, and verified its cryptographic signature only after the temporary file has been written completely.
Under certain conditions, the system interprets the unverified temporary file contents and extracts commands from it. This could allow an attacker to modify signed RPM files in such a way that they would execute code chosen by the attacker during package installation.
(CVE-2013-6435)

This issue was discovered by Florian Weimer of Red Hat Product Security.

All rpm users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue. All running applications linked against the RPM library must be restarted for this update to take effect.

Solution

Update the affected rpm packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?2f2542f3

http://www.nessus.org/u?eb07d648

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 79843

File Name: centos_RHSA-2014-1974.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/10/2014

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.6

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2013-6435

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rpm-apidocs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rpm-build, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rpm-python, cpe:/o:centos:centos:6, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:popt, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rpm-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rpm-libs, cpe:/o:centos:centos:5, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rpm-cron, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rpm

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/9/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/16/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-6435

BID: 71558

RHSA: 2014:1974