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
EPSS
Percentile
5.1%
From Red Hat Security Advisory 2016:0189 :
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.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2016:0189 and
# Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2016-0189 respectively.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(88780);
script_version("2.6");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/14");
script_cve_id("CVE-2015-3256");
script_xref(name:"RHSA", value:"2016:0189");
script_name(english:"Oracle Linux 7 : polkit (ELSA-2016-0189)");
script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"From Red Hat Security Advisory 2016:0189 :
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://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/el-errata/2016-February/005788.html"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:"Update the affected polkit 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:oracle:linux:polkit");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:polkit-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:polkit-docs");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:oracle:linux: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) 2016-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_family(english:"Oracle Linux Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/OracleLinux", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/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);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/OracleLinux")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Oracle Linux");
release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release");
if (isnull(release) || !pregmatch(pattern: "Oracle (?:Linux Server|Enterprise Linux)", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Oracle Linux");
os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "Oracle (?:Linux Server|Enterprise Linux) .*release ([0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Oracle Linux");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^7([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Oracle Linux 7", "Oracle Linux " + os_ver);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Oracle Linux", cpu);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_ARCH_NOT, "x86_64", cpu);
flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"EL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"polkit-0.112-6.el7_2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"EL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"polkit-devel-0.112-6.el7_2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"EL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"polkit-docs-0.112-6.el7_2")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
else security_warning(0);
exit(0);
}
else
{
tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "polkit / polkit-devel / polkit-docs");
}