RHEL 5 / 6 / 7 : setroubleshoot (RHSA-2015:0729)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 82292

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for setroubleshoot.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 / 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2015:0729 advisory.

The setroubleshoot packages provide tools to help diagnose SELinux problems. When Access Vector Cache (AVC) messages are returned, an alert can be generated that provides information about the problem and helps to track its resolution.

It was found that setroubleshoot did not sanitize file names supplied in a shell command look-up for RPMs associated with access violation reports.
An attacker could use this flaw to escalate their privileges on the system by supplying a specially crafted file to the underlying shell command.
(CVE-2015-1815)

Red Hat would like to thank Sebastian Krahmer of the SUSE Security Team for reporting this issue.

All setroubleshoot users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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

Solution

Update the RHEL setroubleshoot package based on the guidance in RHSA-2015:0729.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 82292

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2015-0729.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 3/27/2015

Updated: 3/20/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-1815

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:setroubleshoot-server, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:setroubleshoot-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:setroubleshoot

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: 3/26/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/30/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-1815

BID: 73374

CWE: 77

RHSA: 2015:0729

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