From Red Hat Security Advisory 2015:2248 :

Updated netcf packages that fix one security issue, several bugs, and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

The netcf packages contain a library for modifying the network configuration of a system. Network configuration is expressed in a platform-independent XML format, which netcf translates into changes to the system's 'native' network configuration files.

A denial of service flaw was found in netcf. A specially crafted interface name could cause an application using netcf (such as the libvirt daemon) to crash. (CVE-2014-8119)

This issue was discovered by Hao Liu of Red Hat.

The netcf packages have been upgraded to upstream version 0.2.8, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. (BZ#1206680)

Users of netcf are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs and add these enhancements.

Security fix for CVE-2014-8119, as well as adding a few other minor bugfixes and enhancements (support for multiple IPv4 addresses, simultaneous static & dhcp for IPv4)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Updated netcf packages that fix one security issue, several bugs, and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

The netcf packages contain a library for modifying the network configuration of a system. Network configuration is expressed in a platform-independent XML format, which netcf translates into changes to the system's 'native' network configuration files.

A denial of service flaw was found in netcf. A specially crafted interface name could cause an application using netcf (such as the libvirt daemon) to crash. (CVE-2014-8119)

This issue was discovered by Hao Liu of Red Hat.

The netcf packages have been upgraded to upstream version 0.2.8, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. (BZ#1206680)

Users of netcf are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs and add these enhancements.

This update fixes an untrusted argument escaping problem (CVE-2014-8119) :

  - new API - aug_escape_name() - which can be used to     escape untrusted inputs before using them as part of     path expressions

  - aug_match() is changed to return properly escaped output

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

A denial of service flaw was found in netcf. A specially crafted interface name could cause an application using netcf (such as the libvirt daemon) to crash. (CVE-2014-8119)

The netcf packages have been upgraded to upstream version 0.2.8, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version.

This update for augeas fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed :

  - CVE-2017-7555: Fix a memory corruption bug could have     lead to arbitrary code execution by passing crafted     strings that would be mis-handled by parse_name()     (bsc#1054171).

  - CVE-2014-8119: Fix improper handling of escaped strings     leading to memory corruption (bsc#925225).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
87033	Oracle Linux 7 : netcf (ELSA-2015-2248)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	11/24/2015	1/14/2021	high
83310	Fedora 21 : netcf-0.2.8-1.fc21 (2015-5872)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	5/11/2015	1/11/2021	high
87147	CentOS 7 : netcf (CESA-2015:2248)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	12/2/2015	1/4/2021	high
86540	SUSE SLED11 / SLES11 Security Update : augeas (SUSE-SU-2015:1792-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	10/22/2015	1/6/2021	high
83311	Fedora 20 : netcf-0.2.8-1.fc20 (2015-5910)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	5/11/2015	1/11/2021	high
86979	RHEL 7 : netcf (RHSA-2015:2248)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	11/20/2015	10/24/2019	high
84874	SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : augeas (SUSE-SU-2015:1249-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	7/20/2015	1/6/2021	high
83149	Fedora 22 : netcf-0.2.8-1.fc22 (2015-5885)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	4/30/2015	1/11/2021	high
87563	Scientific Linux Security Update : netcf on SL7.x x86_64 (20151119)	Nessus	Scientific Linux Local Security Checks	12/22/2015	1/14/2021	high
107291	SUSE SLES11 Security Update : augeas (SUSE-SU-2018:0653-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	3/12/2018	1/19/2021	critical

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