Amazon Linux: Security Advisory (ALAS-2015-544) - Kernel update require
Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 60 |
---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Medium: libcap-ng | 16 Jun 201510:27 | – | amazon |
![]() | Medium: kernel | 16 Jun 201510:28 | – | amazon |
![]() | Amazon Linux AMI : libcap-ng (ALAS-2015-543) | 18 Jun 201500:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | GLSA-201412-44 : policycoreutils: Privilege escalation | 29 Dec 201400:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2015-544) | 18 Jun 201500:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | openSUSE Security Update : libcap-ng (openSUSE-SU-2014:0736-1) | 13 Jun 201400:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | RHEL 6 : libcap-ng (Unpatched Vulnerability) | 3 Jun 202400:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | SUSE SLES11 Security Update : libcap-ng (SUSE-SU-2017:0375-1) | 6 Feb 201700:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libcap-ng (MDVSA-2014:117) | 11 Jun 201400:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libcap-ng (MDVSA-2015:156) | 30 Mar 201500:00 | – | nessus |
Source | Link |
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alas | www.alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2015-544.html |
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.120445");
script_cve_id("CVE-2014-3215");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2015-09-08 11:26:35 +0000 (Tue, 08 Sep 2015)");
script_version("2025-01-23T05:37:38+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-01-23 05:37:38 +0000 (Thu, 23 Jan 2025)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"6.9");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_name("Amazon Linux: Security Advisory (ALAS-2015-544)");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2015 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Amazon Linux Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/amazon_linux", "ssh/login/release");
script_xref(name:"Advisory-ID", value:"ALAS-2015-544");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2015-544.html");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The remote host is missing an update for the 'kernel' package(s) announced via the ALAS-2015-544 advisory.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable package version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"A flaw was found in the way seunshare, a utility for running executables under a different security context, used the capng_lock functionality of the libcap-ng library. The subsequent invocation of suid root binaries that relied on the fact that the setuid() system call, among others, also sets the saved set-user-ID when dropping the binaries' process privileges, could allow a local, unprivileged user to potentially escalate their privileges on the system.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"'kernel' package(s) on Amazon Linux.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Please install the updated package(s).");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
exit(0);
}
include("revisions-lib.inc");
include("pkg-lib-rpm.inc");
release = rpm_get_ssh_release();
if(!release)
exit(0);
res = "";
report = "";
if(release == "AMAZON") {
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"kernel", rpm:"kernel~3.14.44~32.39.amzn1", rls:"AMAZON"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"kernel-debuginfo", rpm:"kernel-debuginfo~3.14.44~32.39.amzn1", rls:"AMAZON"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"kernel-debuginfo-common-i686", rpm:"kernel-debuginfo-common-i686~3.14.44~32.39.amzn1", rls:"AMAZON"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64", rpm:"kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64~3.14.44~32.39.amzn1", rls:"AMAZON"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"kernel-devel", rpm:"kernel-devel~3.14.44~32.39.amzn1", rls:"AMAZON"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"kernel-doc", rpm:"kernel-doc~3.14.44~32.39.amzn1", rls:"AMAZON"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"kernel-headers", rpm:"kernel-headers~3.14.44~32.39.amzn1", rls:"AMAZON"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"kernel-tools", rpm:"kernel-tools~3.14.44~32.39.amzn1", rls:"AMAZON"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"kernel-tools-debuginfo", rpm:"kernel-tools-debuginfo~3.14.44~32.39.amzn1", rls:"AMAZON"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"kernel-tools-devel", rpm:"kernel-tools-devel~3.14.44~32.39.amzn1", rls:"AMAZON"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"perf", rpm:"perf~3.14.44~32.39.amzn1", rls:"AMAZON"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"perf-debuginfo", rpm:"perf-debuginfo~3.14.44~32.39.amzn1", rls:"AMAZON"))) {
report += res;
}
if(report != "") {
security_message(data:report);
} else if(__pkg_match) {
exit(99);
}
exit(0);
}
exit(0);
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