4.6 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
5.1%
Updated polkit packages that fix one security issue 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.
PolicyKit is a toolkit for defining and handling authorizations.
A denial of service flaw was found in how polkit handled authorization requests. A local, unprivileged user could send malicious requests to polkit, which could then cause the polkit daemon to corrupt its memory and crash. (CVE-2015-3256)
All polkit users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue. The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2016:0189. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Red Hat, Inc.
#
include("compat.inc");
if (description)
{
script_id(88788);
script_version("2.12");
script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/10/24 15:35:41");
script_cve_id("CVE-2015-3256");
script_xref(name:"RHSA", value:"2016:0189");
script_name(english:"RHEL 7 : polkit (RHSA-2016:0189)");
script_summary(english:"Checks the rpm output for the updated packages");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"Updated polkit packages that fix one security issue 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.
PolicyKit is a toolkit for defining and handling authorizations.
A denial of service flaw was found in how polkit handled authorization
requests. A local, unprivileged user could send malicious requests to
polkit, which could then cause the polkit daemon to corrupt its memory
and crash. (CVE-2015-3256)
All polkit users should upgrade to these updated packages, which
contain a backported patch to correct this issue. The system must be
rebooted for this update to take effect."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0189"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2015-3256"
);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:polkit");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:polkit-debuginfo");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:polkit-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:polkit-docs");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.2");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.3");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.4");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.5");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.6");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.7");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2015/10/26");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2016/02/16");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2016/02/17");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_family(english:"Red Hat Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list", "Host/cpu");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("misc_func.inc");
include("rpm.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release");
if (isnull(release) || "Red Hat" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Red Hat");
os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "Red Hat Enterprise Linux.*release ([0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Red Hat");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^7([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Red Hat 7.x", "Red Hat " + os_ver);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && "s390" >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Red Hat", cpu);
yum_updateinfo = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/yum-updateinfo");
if (!empty_or_null(yum_updateinfo))
{
rhsa = "RHSA-2016:0189";
yum_report = redhat_generate_yum_updateinfo_report(rhsa:rhsa);
if (!empty_or_null(yum_report))
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_WARNING,
extra : yum_report
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
audit_message = "affected by Red Hat security advisory " + rhsa;
audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, audit_message);
}
}
else
{
flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", reference:"polkit-0.112-6.el7_2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", reference:"polkit-debuginfo-0.112-6.el7_2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", reference:"polkit-devel-0.112-6.el7_2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", reference:"polkit-docs-0.112-6.el7_2")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_WARNING,
extra : rpm_report_get() + redhat_report_package_caveat()
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "polkit / polkit-debuginfo / polkit-devel / polkit-docs");
}
}
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
redhat | enterprise_linux | polkit | p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:polkit |
redhat | enterprise_linux | polkit-debuginfo | p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:polkit-debuginfo |
redhat | enterprise_linux | polkit-devel | p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:polkit-devel |
redhat | enterprise_linux | polkit-docs | p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:polkit-docs |
redhat | enterprise_linux | 7 | cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7 |
redhat | enterprise_linux | 7.2 | cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.2 |
redhat | enterprise_linux | 7.3 | cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.3 |
redhat | enterprise_linux | 7.4 | cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.4 |
redhat | enterprise_linux | 7.5 | cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.5 |
redhat | enterprise_linux | 7.6 | cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.6 |