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MiracleLinux 4 : rpm-4.8.0-19.0.1.AXS4 (AXSA:2012-45:01)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 284197

Synopsis

The remote MiracleLinux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote MiracleLinux 4 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the AXSA:2012-45:01 advisory.

 The RPM Package Manager (RPM) is a powerful command line driven package management system capable of installing, uninstalling, verifying, querying, and updating software packages. Each software package consists of an archive of files along with information about the package like its version, a description, etc.
 Security issues fixed with this release:
 CVE-2011-3378 RPM 4.4.x through 4.9.x, probably before 4.9.1.2, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an rpm package with crafted headers and offsets that are not properly handled when a package is queried or installed, related to (1) the regionSwab function, (2) the headerLoad function, and (3) multiple functions in rpmio/rpmpgp.c.
 Fixed bugs:
 - Self-conflicts are now permitted: packages can be installed even if a conflict was addes against its name.
 - Added the xz support to the rpm2cpio.sh utility; it can now extract xz files.
 - When installing a package containing the same files as an already installed package, the file with the less preferred architecture are not overwritten silently anymore: only binaries can overwrite other binaries, conflicting but non-identical files will trigger a message.
 - Files listed in the spec file with the %defattr(-) directive did not keep the attributes they had in the build root. This has been changed and they now keep those attibutes.
 - Signing packages previously signed with the same key could cause the sigining process to abort. This type of files are now skipped and the signing process continues as expected.
 - Files with broken signature no longer make the librpm library crash.
 Enhancement:
 - Re-importing GPG keys does not make RPM fail any longer.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the MiracleLinux 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 packages.

See Also

https://tsn.miraclelinux.com/en/node/2534

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 284197

File Name: miracle_linux_AXSA-2012-45.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 1/14/2026

Updated: 1/14/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 7.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-3378

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:miracle:linux:4, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:rpm-devel, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:rpm, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:rpm-build, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:rpm-libs, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:rpm-python

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/31/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/27/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-3378