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Oracle Linux 7 : polkit (ELSA-2020-1135)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 180735

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2020-1135 advisory.

 - Refined upstream fix of CVE-2018-1116 to avoid ABI changes
 - fix of CVE-2018-1116

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected polkit, polkit-devel and / or polkit-docs packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2020-1135.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 180735

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2020-1135.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/7/2023

Updated: 11/1/2024

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.1

Percentile: 6.91

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.6

Temporal Score: 2.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-1116

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:oracle:linux:7, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:polkit, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:polkit-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:polkit-docs

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/6/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/10/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1116