The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update for glib2 (ALAS-2019-1256). file_copy_fallback in gio/gfile.c in GNOME GLib does not properly restrict file permissions while a copy operation is in progress. Instead, default permissions are used. (CVE-2019-12450
Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 117 |
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Tenable Nessus | Debian DLA-1826-1 : glib2.0 security update | 19 Jun 201900:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : glib2 (SUSE-SU-2019:1594-1) | 24 Jun 201900:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | SUSE SLES11 Security Update : glib2 (SUSE-SU-2019:14102-1) | 10 Jun 202100:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 3.0.2.0 : glib2 (EulerOS-SA-2020-1239) | 13 Mar 202000:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | Photon OS 2.0: Glib PHSA-2019-2.0-0161 | 22 Jul 202400:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | CentOS 8 : glib2 (CESA-2019:3530) | 29 Jan 202100:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | NewStart CGSL CORE 5.05 / MAIN 5.05 : glib2 Vulnerability (NS-SA-2021-0157) | 28 Oct 202100:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | Photon OS 3.0: Glib PHSA-2019-3.0-0018 | 25 Jun 201900:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : GLib vulnerability (USN-4014-1) | 11 Jun 201900:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | Oracle Linux 8 : glib2 (ELSA-2019-3530) | 7 Sep 202300:00 | – | nessus |
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory ALAS-2019-1256.
#
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(127812);
script_version("1.3");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2024/05/06");
script_cve_id("CVE-2019-12450");
script_xref(name:"ALAS", value:"2019-1256");
script_name(english:"Amazon Linux AMI : glib2 (ALAS-2019-1256)");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"file_copy_fallback in gio/gfile.c in GNOME GLib does not properly
restrict file permissions while a copy operation is in progress.
Instead, default permissions are used.(CVE-2019-12450)");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2019-1256.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Run 'yum update glib2' to update your system.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2019-12450");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2019/05/29");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2019/08/12");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2019/08/13");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:glib2");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:glib2-debuginfo");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:glib2-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:glib2-doc");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:glib2-fam");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:amazon:linux");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"Amazon Linux Local Security Checks");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2024 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/AmazonLinux/release", "Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/AmazonLinux/release");
if (isnull(release) || !strlen(release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Amazon Linux");
os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "^AL(A|\d)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Amazon Linux");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (os_ver != "A")
{
if (os_ver == 'A') os_ver = 'AMI';
audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Amazon Linux AMI", "Amazon Linux " + os_ver);
}
if (!get_kb_item("Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"glib2-2.36.3-5.21.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"glib2-debuginfo-2.36.3-5.21.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"glib2-devel-2.36.3-5.21.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"glib2-doc-2.36.3-5.21.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"glib2-fam-2.36.3-5.21.amzn1")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
else security_hole(0);
exit(0);
}
else
{
tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "glib2 / glib2-debuginfo / glib2-devel / glib2-doc / glib2-fam");
}
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