RHEL 6 : cifs-utils (RHSA-2012:0902)

low Nessus Plugin ID 59596

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2012:0902 advisory.

- samba / cifs-utils: mount.cifs file existence disclosure vulnerability (CVE-2012-1586)

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 cifs-utils package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?341b02e9

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012:0902

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=748756

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=748757

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=807252

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 59596

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2012-0902.nasl

Version: 1.20

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/20/2012

Updated: 4/27/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-1586

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.3

Temporal Score: 3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cifs-utils, 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: 6/20/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/27/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-1586

BID: 52742, 53246

RHSA: 2012:0902