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RHEL 7 : policycoreutils (RHSA-2018:0913)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 108991

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Synopsis

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

Description

An update for policycoreutils is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link (s) in the References section.

The policycoreutils packages contain the core policy utilities required to manage a SELinux environment.

Security Fix(es) :

* policycoreutils: Relabelling of symbolic links in /tmp and /var/tmp change the context of their target instead (CVE-2018-1063)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

This issue was discovered by Renaud Metrich (Red Hat).

Additional Changes :

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?dde41582

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0913

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-1063

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 108991

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2018-0913.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/11/2018

Updated: 10/24/2019

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.3

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:policycoreutils, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:policycoreutils-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:policycoreutils-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:policycoreutils-gui, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:policycoreutils-newrole, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:policycoreutils-python, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:policycoreutils-restorecond, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:policycoreutils-sandbox, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.6, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.7

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

Patch Publication Date: 4/10/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/2/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1063

RHSA: 2018:0913