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RHEL 5 : tog-pegasus (RHSA-2008:1001)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 34956

Synopsis

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

Description

Updated tog-pegasus packages that fix security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

The tog-pegasus packages provide OpenPegasus Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) services. WBEM is a platform and resource independent Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) standard that defines a common information model and communication protocol for monitoring and controlling resources.

Red Hat defines additional security enhancements for OpenGroup Pegasus WBEM services in addition to those defined by the upstream OpenGroup Pegasus release. For details regarding these enhancements, refer to the file 'README.RedHat.Security', included in the Red Hat tog-pegasus package.

After re-basing to version 2.7.0 of the OpenGroup Pegasus code, these additional security enhancements were no longer being applied. As a consequence, access to OpenPegasus WBEM services was not restricted to the dedicated users as described in README.RedHat.Security. An attacker able to authenticate using a valid user account could use this flaw to send requests to WBEM services. (CVE-2008-4313)

Note: default SELinux policy prevents tog-pegasus from modifying system files. This flaw's impact depends on whether or not tog-pegasus is confined by SELinux, and on any additional CMPI providers installed and enabled on a particular system.

Failed authentication attempts against the OpenPegasus CIM server were not logged to the system log as documented in README.RedHat.Security.
An attacker could use this flaw to perform password guessing attacks against a user account without leaving traces in the system log.
(CVE-2008-4315)

All tog-pegasus users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain patches to correct these issues.

Solution

Update the affected tog-pegasus and / or tog-pegasus-devel packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008:1001

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2008-4313

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2008-4315

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 34956

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2008-1001.nasl

Version: 1.25

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/25/2008

Updated: 1/14/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.04

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: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5.2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tog-pegasus, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tog-pegasus-devel

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/25/2008

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/26/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-4313, CVE-2008-4315

CWE: 264

RHSA: 2008:1001