RHEL 6 : spice-gtk (RHSA-2012:1284)

high Nessus Plugin ID 62170

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for spice-gtk.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2012:1284 advisory.

- spice-gtk/glib: Possible privilege escalation via un-sanitized environment variable (CVE-2012-4425)

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 RHEL spice-gtk package based on the guidance in RHSA-2012:1284.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 62170

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2012-1284.nasl

Version: 1.21

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 9/18/2012

Updated: 4/24/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Temporal Score: 5.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-4425

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spice-glib, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spice-glib-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spice-gtk, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spice-gtk-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spice-gtk-python, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spice-gtk-tools, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/17/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/18/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-4425

BID: 55555

RHSA: 2012:1284

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