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Oracle Solaris Third-Party Patch Update : ipmitool (cve_2011_4339_access_controls)

low Nessus Plugin ID 80645

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Synopsis

The remote Solaris system is missing a security patch for third-party software.

Description

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

 - ipmievd (aka the IPMI event daemon) in OpenIPMI, as used in the ipmitool package 1.8.11 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6, Debian GNU/Linux, Fedora 16, and other products uses 0666 permissions for its ipmievd.pid PID file, which allows local users to kill arbitrary processes by writing to this file. (CVE-2011-4339)

Solution

Upgrade to Solaris 11/11 SRU 13.4.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?4a913f44

http://www.nessus.org/u?bea26972

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 80645

File Name: solaris11_ipmitool_20121120.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Published: 1/19/2015

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:oracle:solaris:11.0, p-cpe:/a:oracle:solaris:ipmitool

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Solaris11/release, Host/Solaris11/pkg-list

Patch Publication Date: 11/20/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-4339