RHEL 7 : glibc (RHSA-2015:2199)

high Nessus Plugin ID 86937

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2015:2199 advisory.

- glibc: getaddrinfo() writes DNS queries to random file descriptors under high load (CVE-2013-7423)

- glibc: heap buffer overflow in glibc swscanf (CVE-2015-1472)

- glibc: Stack-overflow in glibc swscanf (CVE-2015-1473)

- glibc: buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r() and related functions with misaligned buffer (CVE-2015-1781)

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 86937

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2015-2199.nasl

Version: 2.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 11/19/2015

Updated: 4/24/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-1472

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-1473

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/19/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/24/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-7423, CVE-2015-1472, CVE-2015-1473, CVE-2015-1781

CWE: 119, 121, 122, 201

RHSA: 2015:2199

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