RHEL 6 : swiftonfile (RHSA-2015:1918)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 86523

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

An updated swiftonfile package that fixes one security issue is now available for Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important 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 Gluster Storage is a software only scale-out storage solution that provides flexible and affordable unstructured data storage. It unifies data storage and infrastructure, increases performance, and improves availability and manageability to meet enterprise-level storage challenges.

Red Hat Gluster Storage's Unified File and Object Storage is built on OpenStack's Object Storage (swift).

A flaw was found in the way swiftonfile (gluster-swift) serialized and stored metadata on disk by using Python's pickle module. A remote, authenticated user could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code on the storage node. (CVE-2015-5242)

For more information about CVE-2015-5242, please see https://access.redhat.com/solutions/1985893

Red Hat would like to thank Bill Owen of IBM for reporting this issue.

All swiftonfile users are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which contains a backported patch to correct this issue.

Solution

Update the affected swiftonfile package.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/solutions/1985893

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015:1918

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2015-5242

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 86523

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2015-1918.nasl

Version: 2.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/22/2015

Updated: 10/24/2019

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:swiftonfile, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/20/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/25/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-5242

RHSA: 2015:1918