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RHEL 6 : libreport (RHSA-2015:2504)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 87045

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Synopsis

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

Description

Updated libreport packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

libreport provides an API for reporting different problems in applications to different bug targets, such as Bugzilla, FTP, and Trac. ABRT (Automatic Bug Reporting Tool) uses libreport.

It was found that ABRT may have exposed unintended information to Red Hat Bugzilla during crash reporting. A bug in the libreport library caused changes made by a user in files included in a crash report to be discarded. As a result, Red Hat Bugzilla attachments may contain data that was not intended to be made public, including host names, IP addresses, or command line options. (CVE-2015-5302)

This flaw did not affect default installations of ABRT on Red Hat Enterprise Linux as they do not post data to Red Hat Bugzilla. This feature can however be enabled, potentially impacting modified ABRT instances.

As a precaution, Red Hat has identified bugs filed by such non-default Red Hat Enterprise Linux users of ABRT and marked them private.

This issue was discovered by Bastien Nocera of Red Hat.

All users of libreport are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which corrects this issue.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015:2504

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2015-5302

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 87045

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2015-2504.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/24/2015

Updated: 10/24/2019

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libreport-plugin-kerneloops, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libreport-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libreport-plugin-ureport, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libreport-python, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libreport-gtk-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libreport-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libreport-cli, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libreport-filesystem, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libreport-plugin-rhtsupport, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libreport-plugin-reportuploader, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libreport-compat, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libreport-plugin-mailx, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libreport-gtk, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libreport, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libreport-plugin-logger, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libreport-newt, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libreport-plugin-bugzilla

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: 11/23/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/7/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-5302

RHSA: 2015:2504