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Oracle Linux 6 : policycoreutils (ELSA-2011-0414)

high Nessus Plugin ID 68246

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2011-0414 advisory.

 policycoreutils:

 [2.0.83-19.8]
 - Fix seunshare to work with /tmp content when SELinux context is not provided Resolves: #679689

 [2.0.83-19.7]
 - put back correct chcon
 - Latest fixes for seunshare

 [2.0.83-19.6]
 - Fix rsync command to work if the directory is old.
 - Fix all tests Resolves: #679689

 [2.0.83-19.5]
 - Add requires rsync and fix man page for seunshare

 [2.0.83-19.4]
 - fix to sandbox
 - Fix seunshare to use more secure handling of /tmp
 - Rewrite seunshare to make sure /tmp is mounted stickybit owned by root
 - Change to allow sandbox to run on nfs homedirs, add start python script
 - change default location of HOMEDIR in sandbox to /tmp/.sandbox_home_*
 - Move seunshare to sandbox package
 - Fix sandbox to show correct types in usage statement

 selinux-policy:

 [3.7.19-54.0.1.el6_0.5]
 - Allow ocfs2 to be mounted with file_t type.

 [3.7.19-54.el6_0.5]
 - seunshare needs to be able to mounton nfs/cifs/fusefs homedirs Resolves: #684918

 [3.7.19-54.el6_0.4]
 - Fix to sandbox
 * selinux-policy fixes for policycoreutils sandbox changes
 - Fix seunshare to use more secure handling of /tmp
 - Change to allow sandbox to run on nfs homedirs, add start python script

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 packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2011-0414.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 68246

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2011-0414.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/12/2013

Updated: 4/29/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Temporal Score: 5.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-1011

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 6.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:selinux-policy-mls, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:selinux-policy-targeted, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:policycoreutils-python, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:selinux-policy-minimum, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:selinux-policy-doc, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:policycoreutils-gui, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:selinux-policy, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:policycoreutils-newrole, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:policycoreutils-sandbox, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:policycoreutils, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:6

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/5/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/24/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1011

BID: 46510

RHSA: 2011:0414