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Amazon Linux AMI : realmd (ALAS-2016-636)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 87970

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Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.

Description

A flaw was found in the way realmd parsed certain input when writing configuration into the sssd.conf or smb.conf file. A remote attacker could use this flaw to inject arbitrary configurations into these files via a newline character in an LDAP response.

Solution

Run 'yum update realmd' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2016-636.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 87970

File Name: ala_ALAS-2016-636.nasl

Version: 2.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/19/2016

Updated: 4/18/2018

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:amazon:linux, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:realmd-devel-docs, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:realmd-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:realmd

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

Patch Publication Date: 1/18/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-2704

ALAS: 2016-636