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Scientific Linux Security Update : abrt on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20150707)

high Nessus Plugin ID 84611

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Synopsis

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

Description

It was found that ABRT was vulnerable to multiple race condition and symbolic link flaws. A local attacker could use these flaws to potentially escalate their privileges on the system. (CVE-2015-3315)

It was discovered that the kernel-invoked coredump processor provided by ABRT wrote core dumps to files owned by other system users. This could result in information disclosure if an application crashed while its current directory was a directory writable to by other users (such as /tmp). (CVE-2015-3142)

It was discovered that the default event handling scripts installed by ABRT did not handle symbolic links correctly. A local attacker with write access to an ABRT problem directory could use this flaw to escalate their privileges. (CVE-2015-1869)

It was found that the ABRT event scripts created a user-readable copy of an sosreport file in ABRT problem directories, and included excerpts of /var/log/messages selected by the user-controlled process name, leading to an information disclosure. (CVE-2015-1870)

It was discovered that, when moving problem reports between certain directories, abrt-handle-upload did not verify that the new problem directory had appropriate permissions and did not contain symbolic links. An attacker able to create a crafted problem report could use this flaw to expose other parts of ABRT, or to overwrite arbitrary files on the system. (CVE-2015-3147)

It was discovered that the abrt-action-install-debuginfo-to-abrt-cache helper program did not properly filter the process environment before invoking abrt-action-install-debuginfo. A local attacker could use this flaw to escalate their privileges on the system. (CVE-2015-3159)

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?53b73d62

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 84611

File Name: sl_20150707_abrt_on_SL6_x.nasl

Version: 2.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/8/2015

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:abrt, p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:abrt-addon-ccpp, p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:abrt-addon-kerneloops, p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:abrt-addon-python, p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:abrt-addon-vmcore, p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:abrt-cli, p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:abrt-console-notification, p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:abrt-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:abrt-desktop, p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:abrt-devel, p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:abrt-gui, p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:abrt-libs, p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:abrt-python, p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:abrt-tui, p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:libreport, p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:libreport-cli, p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:libreport-compat, p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:libreport-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:libreport-devel, p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:libreport-filesystem, p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:libreport-gtk, p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:libreport-gtk-devel, p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:libreport-newt, p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:libreport-plugin-bugzilla, p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:libreport-plugin-kerneloops, p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:libreport-plugin-logger, p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:libreport-plugin-mailx, p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:libreport-plugin-reportuploader, p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:libreport-plugin-rhtsupport, p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:libreport-python, x-cpe:/o:fermilab:scientific_linux

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/7/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/26/2017

Exploitable With

Metasploit (ABRT raceabrt Privilege Escalation)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-1869, CVE-2015-1870, CVE-2015-3142, CVE-2015-3147, CVE-2015-3159, CVE-2015-3315