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
AI Score
Confidence
Low
EPSS
Percentile
5.1%
The remote host is missing an update for the
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 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("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.871561");
script_version("2024-03-21T05:06:54+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2024-03-21 05:06:54 +0000 (Thu, 21 Mar 2024)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2016-02-17 06:26:06 +0100 (Wed, 17 Feb 2016)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2015-3256");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"4.6");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
script_name("RedHat Update for polkit RHSA-2016:0189-01");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The remote host is missing an update for the 'polkit'
package(s) announced via the referenced advisory.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"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_tag(name:"affected", value:"polkit on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Please Install the Updated Packages.");
script_xref(name:"RHSA", value:"2016:0189-01");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www.redhat.com/archives/rhsa-announce/2016-February/msg00028.html");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2016 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Red Hat Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/rhel", "ssh/login/rpms", re:"ssh/login/release=RHENT_7");
exit(0);
}
include("revisions-lib.inc");
include("pkg-lib-rpm.inc");
release = rpm_get_ssh_release();
if(!release) exit(0);
res = "";
if(release == "RHENT_7")
{
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"polkit-docs", rpm:"polkit-docs~0.112~6.el7_2", rls:"RHENT_7")) != NULL)
{
security_message(data:res);
exit(0);
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"polkit", rpm:"polkit~0.112~6.el7_2", rls:"RHENT_7")) != NULL)
{
security_message(data:res);
exit(0);
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"polkit-debuginfo", rpm:"polkit-debuginfo~0.112~6.el7_2", rls:"RHENT_7")) != NULL)
{
security_message(data:res);
exit(0);
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"polkit-devel", rpm:"polkit-devel~0.112~6.el7_2", rls:"RHENT_7")) != NULL)
{
security_message(data:res);
exit(0);
}
if (__pkg_match) exit(99);
exit(0);
}