RHEL 5 : redhat-ds-base (RHSA-2012:1041)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 78926

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for redhat-ds-base.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2012:1041 advisory.

- rhds/389: plaintext password disclosure flaw (CVE-2012-2678)

- rhds/389: plaintext password disclosure in audit log (CVE-2012-2746)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL redhat-ds-base package based on the guidance in RHSA-2012:1041.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?1d89c6fe

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012:1041

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=829933

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=833482

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 78926

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2012-1041.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/8/2014

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: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-2746

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:redhat-ds-base, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:redhat-ds-base-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/26/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/3/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-2678, CVE-2012-2746

BID: 54153

RHSA: 2012:1041