CentOS 6 : luci (CESA-2013:1603)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 79165

Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.

Description

Updated luci packages that fix two security issues, several bugs, and add two enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

Luci is a web-based high availability administration application.

A flaw was found in the way the luci service was initialized. If a system administrator started the luci service from a directory that was writable to by a local user, that user could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code as the root or luci user. (CVE-2013-4482)

A flaw was found in the way luci generated its configuration file. The file was created as world readable for a short period of time, allowing a local user to gain access to the authentication secrets stored in the configuration file. (CVE-2013-4481)

These issues were discovered by Jan Pokorny of Red Hat.

These updated luci packages include numerous bug fixes and two enhancements. Space precludes documenting all of these changes in this advisory. Users are directed to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 Technical Notes, linked to in the References, for information on the most significant of these changes.

All luci users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues and add these enhancements. After installing this update, the luci service will be restarted automatically.

Solution

Update the affected luci package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?54c30406

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 79165

File Name: centos_RHSA-2013-1603.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/12/2014

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.2

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2013-4482

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:luci, cpe:/o:centos:centos:6

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/26/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/23/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-4481, CVE-2013-4482

BID: 63854, 63859

RHSA: 2013:1603