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Oracle Linux 7 : glibc (ELSA-2015-0327)

high Nessus Plugin ID 81722

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2015-0327 advisory.

 - Fix parsing of numeric hosts in gethostbyname_r (CVE-2015-0235, #1183545).
 - Prevent NSS-based file backend from entering infinite loop when different APIs request the same service (CVE-2014-8121, #1182272).
 - Fix wordexp() to honour WRDE_NOCMD (CVE-2014-7817, #1170487).
 - Fix crashes on invalid input in IBM gconv modules (#1140474, CVE-2014-6040).
 - Remove gconv transliteration loadable modules support (CVE-2014-5119,
 - _nl_find_locale: Improve handling of crafted locale names (CVE-2014-0475,

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2015-0327.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 81722

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2015-0327.nasl

Version: 1.32

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/10/2015

Updated: 11/1/2024

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-8121

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:glibc-headers, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nscd, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:7, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:glibc, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:glibc-utils, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:glibc-static, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:glibc-common, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:glibc-devel

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/9/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/5/2014

Exploitable With

Metasploit (Exim GHOST (glibc gethostbyname) Buffer Overflow)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-6040, CVE-2014-8121

BID: 68505, 68983, 69472, 71216, 72325, 73038

RHSA: 2015:0327