Debian DSA-3543-1 : oar - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 90371

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Emmanuel Thome discovered that missing sanitising in the oarsh command of OAR, a software used to manage jobs and resources of HPC clusters, could result in privilege escalation.

Solution

Upgrade the oar packages.

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 2.5.2-3+deb7u1.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 2.5.4-2+deb8u1.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 90371

File Name: debian_DSA-3543.nasl

Version: 2.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 4/7/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:oar, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/5/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-1235

DSA: 3543

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