An update for xorg-x11-server is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
X.Org is an open source implementation of the X Window System. It provides the basic low-level functionality that full-fledged graphical user interfaces are designed upon.
Security Fix(es) :
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Red Hat would like to thank Narendra Shinde for reporting this issue.
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2018:3410 and
# CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2018:3410 respectively.
#
include("compat.inc");
if (description)
{
script_id(119006);
script_version("1.8");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/04/08");
script_cve_id("CVE-2018-14665");
script_xref(name:"RHSA", value:"2018:3410");
script_name(english:"CentOS 7 : xorg-x11-server (CESA-2018:3410)");
script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"An update for xorg-x11-server is now available for Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 7.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security
impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base
score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each
vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
X.Org is an open source implementation of the X Window System. It
provides the basic low-level functionality that full-fledged graphical
user interfaces are designed upon.
Security Fix(es) :
* xorg-x11-server: Incorrect permission check in Xorg X server allows
for privilege escalation (CVE-2018-14665)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a
CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s)
listed in the References section.
Red Hat would like to thank Narendra Shinde for reporting this issue."
);
# https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2018-December/023131.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?e0914ccc"
);
# https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-cr-announce/2018-November/005745.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?482da59a"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:"Update the affected xorg-x11-server packages."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:F/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2018-14665");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"metasploit_name", value:'Xorg X11 Server SUID modulepath Privilege Escalation');
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_framework_metasploit", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:xorg-x11-server-Xdmx");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:xorg-x11-server-Xephyr");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:xorg-x11-server-Xnest");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:xorg-x11-server-Xorg");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:xorg-x11-server-Xvfb");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:xorg-x11-server-Xwayland");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:xorg-x11-server-common");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:xorg-x11-server-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:xorg-x11-server-source");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:centos:centos:7");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2018/10/25");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2018/12/13");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2018/11/16");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"in_the_news", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_family(english:"CentOS Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/CentOS/release", "Host/CentOS/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/CentOS/release");
if (isnull(release) || "CentOS" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "CentOS");
os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "CentOS(?: Linux)? release ([0-9]+)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "CentOS");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^7([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "CentOS 7.x", "CentOS " + os_ver);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/CentOS/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "CentOS", cpu);
flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"xorg-x11-server-Xdmx-1.20.1-5.1.el7")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"xorg-x11-server-Xephyr-1.20.1-5.1.el7")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"xorg-x11-server-Xnest-1.20.1-5.1.el7")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.20.1-5.1.el7")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"xorg-x11-server-Xvfb-1.20.1-5.1.el7")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"xorg-x11-server-Xwayland-1.20.1-5.1.el7")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"xorg-x11-server-common-1.20.1-5.1.el7")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"xorg-x11-server-devel-1.20.1-5.1.el7")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"xorg-x11-server-source-1.20.1-5.1.el7")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
cr_plugin_caveat = '\n' +
'NOTE: The security advisory associated with this vulnerability has a\n' +
'fixed package version that may only be available in the continuous\n' +
'release (CR) repository for CentOS, until it is present in the next\n' +
'point release of CentOS.\n\n' +
'If an equal or higher package level does not exist in the baseline\n' +
'repository for your major version of CentOS, then updates from the CR\n' +
'repository will need to be applied in order to address the\n' +
'vulnerability.\n';
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_HOLE,
extra : rpm_report_get() + cr_plugin_caveat
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "xorg-x11-server-Xdmx / xorg-x11-server-Xephyr / etc");
}
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
centos | centos | xorg-x11-server-source | p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:xorg-x11-server-source |
centos | centos | xorg-x11-server-common | p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:xorg-x11-server-common |
centos | centos | 7 | cpe:/o:centos:centos:7 |
centos | centos | xorg-x11-server-devel | p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:xorg-x11-server-devel |
centos | centos | xorg-x11-server-xdmx | p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:xorg-x11-server-xdmx |
centos | centos | xorg-x11-server-xorg | p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:xorg-x11-server-xorg |
centos | centos | xorg-x11-server-xvfb | p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:xorg-x11-server-xvfb |
centos | centos | xorg-x11-server-xnest | p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:xorg-x11-server-xnest |
centos | centos | xorg-x11-server-xwayland | p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:xorg-x11-server-xwayland |
centos | centos | xorg-x11-server-xephyr | p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:xorg-x11-server-xephyr |