The remote Solaris system is missing necessary patches to address security updates :

  - tcsd in TrouSerS before 0.3.10 allows remote attackers     to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a     crafted type_offset value in a TCP packet to port 30003.
    (CVE-2012-0698)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2014-1507 advisory.

    [0.3.13-2]
    - Fix strict alias warning

    [0.3.13-1]
    - New upstream bug fix release     resolves: #633584 - Pick up latest TrouSerS package     resolves: #1074634 - Buffer overflow detected in TrouSerS daemon

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Updated trousers packages that fix one security issue, several bugs, and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Low 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.

TrouSerS is an implementation of the Trusted Computing Group's Software Stack (TSS) specification. You can use TrouSerS to write applications that make use of your TPM hardware. TPM hardware can create, store and use RSA keys securely (without ever being exposed in memory), verify a platform's software state using cryptographic hashes and more.

A flaw was found in the way tcsd, the daemon that manages Trusted Computing resources, processed incoming TCP packets. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted TCP packet that, when processed by tcsd, could cause the daemon to crash. Note that by default tcsd accepts requests on localhost only. (CVE-2012-0698)

Red Hat would like to thank Andrew Lutomirski for reporting this issue.

The trousers package has been upgraded to upstream version 0.3.13, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version, including corrected internal symbol names to avoid collisions with other applications, fixed memory leaks, added IPv6 support, fixed buffer handling in tcsd, as well as changed the license to BSD. (BZ#633584, BZ#1074634)

All trousers users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which correct these issues and add these enhancements.

A flaw was found in the way tcsd, the daemon that manages Trusted Computing resources, processed incoming TCP packets. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted TCP packet that, when processed by tcsd, could cause the daemon to crash. Note that by default tcsd accepts requests on localhost only. (CVE-2012-0698)

The trousers package has been upgraded to upstream version 0.3.13, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version, including corrected internal symbol names to avoid collisions with other applications, fixed memory leaks, added IPv6 support, fixed buffer handling in tcsd, as well as changed the license to BSD.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2014:1507 advisory.

    TrouSerS is an implementation of the Trusted Computing Group's Software     Stack (TSS) specification. You can use TrouSerS to write applications that     make use of your TPM hardware. TPM hardware can create, store and use RSA     keys securely (without ever being exposed in memory), verify a platform's     software state using cryptographic hashes and more.

    A flaw was found in the way tcsd, the daemon that manages Trusted Computing     resources, processed incoming TCP packets. A remote attacker could send a     specially crafted TCP packet that, when processed by tcsd, could cause the     daemon to crash. Note that by default tcsd accepts requests on localhost     only. (CVE-2012-0698)

    Red Hat would like to thank Andrew Lutomirski for reporting this issue.

    The trousers package has been upgraded to upstream version 0.3.13, which     provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version,     including corrected internal symbol names to avoid collisions with other     applications, fixed memory leaks, added IPv6 support, fixed buffer handling     in tcsd, as well as changed the license to BSD. (BZ#633584, BZ#1074634)

    All trousers users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which     correct these issues and add these enhancements.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Andy Lutomirski discovered that tcsd (the TPM userspace daemon) was missing input validation. Using carefully crafted input, it can lead to a denial of service by making the daemon crash with a segmentation fault.

This update closes a small security issue where a remote user could crash tscd if it were enabled for networking. This update also has improved init scripts which should make it load quicker.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - tcsd in TrouSerS before 0.3.10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a     crafted type_offset value in a TCP packet to port 30003. (CVE-2012-0698)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
80780	Oracle Solaris Third-Party Patch Update : tcsd (cve_2012_0698_denial_of)	Nessus	Solaris Local Security Checks	1/19/2015	1/14/2021	medium
78525	Oracle Linux 6 : trousers (ELSA-2014-1507)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	10/17/2014	10/22/2024	high
79183	CentOS 6 : trousers (CESA-2014:1507)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	11/12/2014	1/4/2021	medium
78642	Scientific Linux Security Update : trousers on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20141014)	Nessus	Scientific Linux Local Security Checks	10/23/2014	1/14/2021	medium
78412	RHEL 6 : trousers (RHSA-2014:1507)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	10/14/2014	4/15/2025	high
63028	Debian DSA-2576-1 : trousers - denial of service	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	11/26/2012	1/11/2021	medium
62020	Fedora 17 : trousers-0.3.9-1.fc17 (2012-12973)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	9/10/2012	1/11/2021	medium
217677	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2012-0698	Nessus	Misc.	3/4/2025	3/4/2025	high

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