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RHEL 6 : subscription-manager (RHSA-2017:0698)

low Nessus Plugin ID 97882

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Synopsis

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

Description

An update for subscription-manager, subscription-manager-migration-data, and python-rhsm is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

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

The subscription-manager packages provide programs and libraries to allow users to manage subscriptions and yum repositories from the Red Hat entitlement platform.

The subscription-manager-migration-data package provides certificates for migrating a system from the legacy Red Hat Network Classic (RHN) to Red Hat Subscription Management (RHSM).

The python-rhsm packages provide a library for communicating with the representational state transfer (REST) interface of a Red Hat Unified Entitlement Platform. The Subscription Management tools use this interface to manage system entitlements, certificates, and access to content.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version:
subscription-manager (1.18.10), python-rhsm (1.18.6), subscription-manager-migration-data (2.0.34). (BZ#1383475, BZ#1385446, BZ# 1385382)

Security Fix(es) :

* It was found that subscription-manager set weak permissions on files in / var/lib/rhsm/, causing an information disclosure. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to access sensitive data that could potentially be used in a social engineering attack.
(CVE-2016-4455)

Red Hat would like to thank Robert Scheck for reporting this issue.

Additional Changes :

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9 Release Notes and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9 Technical Notes linked from the References section.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?b5caa05f

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0698

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-4455

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 97882

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2017-0698.nasl

Version: 3.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/22/2017

Updated: 10/24/2019

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.3

Temporal Score: 2.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-rhsm-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:subscription-manager-plugin-container, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-rhsm, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:subscription-manager-firstboot, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:subscription-manager-gui, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:subscription-manager-migration, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:subscription-manager, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:subscription-manager-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:subscription-manager-migration-data, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-rhsm-certificates

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: 3/21/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/14/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-4455

RHSA: 2017:0698