Oracle Linux 7 : ipa / and / slapi-nis (ELSA-2015-0728)

high Nessus Plugin ID 82288

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-2015-0728 advisory.

- CVE-2015-0283 ipa: slapi-nis: infinite loop in getgrnam_r() and getgrgid_r() (#1202997)
- Fix CVE-2015-0283

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-2015-0728.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 82288

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2015-0728.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/27/2015

Updated: 10/22/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-0283

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-1827

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ipa-server-trust-ad, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ipa-python, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:7, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ipa-client, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ipa-server, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ipa-admintools, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:slapi-nis

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: 3/26/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/30/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-0283, CVE-2015-1827

BID: 73376, 73377

RHSA: 2015:0728