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Scientific Linux Security Update : pacemaker on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20161108)

🗓️ 09 Nov 2016 00:00:00Reported by TenableType 
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Scientific Linux Security Update: pacemaker on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20161108). An authorization flaw in Pacemaker allowed unprivileged account access to gain root privileges (CVE-2016-7035)

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#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text is (C) Scientific Linux.
#

include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(94653);
  script_version("2.6");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2026/01/19");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2016-7035");

  script_name(english:"Scientific Linux Security Update : pacemaker on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20161108)");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security
updates.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"Security Fix(es) :

  - An authorization flaw was found in Pacemaker, where it
    did not properly guard its IPC interface. An attacker
    with an unprivileged account on a Pacemaker node could
    use this flaw to, for example, force the Local Resource
    Manager daemon to execute a script as root and thereby
    gain root access on the machine. (CVE-2016-7035)

This issue was discovered by Jan 'poki' Pokorny (Red Hat) and Alain
Moulle (ATOS/BULL).");
  # https://listserv.fnal.gov/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind1611&L=scientific-linux-errata&F=&S=&P=1159
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?ab1b4a19");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected 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:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/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-2016-7035");

  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:"2018/09/10");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2016/11/08");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2016/11/09");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:pacemaker");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:pacemaker-cli");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:pacemaker-cluster-libs");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:pacemaker-cts");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:pacemaker-debuginfo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:pacemaker-doc");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:pacemaker-libs");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:pacemaker-libs-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:pacemaker-remote");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"x-cpe:/o:fermilab:scientific_linux");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"Scientific Linux Local Security Checks");

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2026 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/cpu", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list");

  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) || "Scientific Linux " >!< release) audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "running Scientific Linux");
os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "Scientific Linux.*release ([0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Scientific Linux");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^6([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Scientific Linux 6.x", "Scientific Linux " + 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 (cpu >!< "x86_64" && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Scientific Linux", cpu);


flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL6", reference:"pacemaker-1.1.14-8.el6_8.2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL6", reference:"pacemaker-cli-1.1.14-8.el6_8.2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL6", reference:"pacemaker-cluster-libs-1.1.14-8.el6_8.2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL6", reference:"pacemaker-cts-1.1.14-8.el6_8.2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL6", reference:"pacemaker-debuginfo-1.1.14-8.el6_8.2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL6", reference:"pacemaker-doc-1.1.14-8.el6_8.2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL6", reference:"pacemaker-libs-1.1.14-8.el6_8.2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL6", reference:"pacemaker-libs-devel-1.1.14-8.el6_8.2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL6", reference:"pacemaker-remote-1.1.14-8.el6_8.2")) flag++;


if (flag)
{
  security_report_v4(
    port       : 0,
    severity   : SECURITY_HOLE,
    extra      : rpm_report_get()
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "pacemaker / pacemaker-cli / pacemaker-cluster-libs / pacemaker-cts / etc");
}

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