RHEL 5 : spacewalk-java (RHSA-2011:0879)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 63982

Synopsis

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

Description

Updated spacewalk-java packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Network Satellite 5.4.1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate 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.

Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite provides a solution to organizations requiring absolute control over and privacy of the maintenance and package deployment of their servers. It allows organizations to utilize the benefits of the Red Hat Network without having to provide public Internet access to their servers or other client systems.

It was found that RHN Satellite did not protect against Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks. If an authenticated RHN Satellite user visited a specially crafted web page, it could lead to unauthorized command execution with the privileges of that user, for example, creating a new user account, granting administrator privileges to user accounts, disabling the account of the current user, and so on.
(CVE-2009-4139)

Red Hat would like to thank Christian Johansson of Bitsec AB and Thomas Biege of the SUSE Security Team for independently reporting this issue.

Users of Red Hat Network Satellite 5.4.1 are advised to upgrade to these updated spacewalk-java packages, which resolve this issue. For this update to take effect, Red Hat Network Satellite must be restarted. Refer to the Solution section for details.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2009-4139.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0879.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 63982

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2011-0879.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/24/2013

Updated: 1/14/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-java, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-java-config, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-java-lib, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-java-oracle, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-taskomatic, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5

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

Patch Publication Date: 6/16/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-4139

RHSA: 2011:0879