Executive Summary



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Summary
Title libunwind security update
Informations
Name RHSA-2015:1675 First vendor Publication 2015-08-24
Vendor RedHat Last vendor Modification 2015-08-24
Severity (Vendor) Low Revision 01

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Cvss Base Score 3.3 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 4.9 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 3.4 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Problem Description:

Updated libunwind packages that fix a security flaw are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Low security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0 for RHEL 7 - x86_64

3. Description:

Libunwind provides a C ABI to determine the call-chain of a program.

An off by one array indexing error was found in libunwind. It is unlikely that any exploitable attack vector exists in current builds or supported usage. (CVE-2015-3239)

This issue was discovered by Paolo Bonzini of Red Hat.

All users of libunwind are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which correct this issue.

4. Solution:

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

1232265 - CVE-2015-3239 libunwind: off-by-one in dwarf_to_unw_regnum()

Original Source

Url : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1675.html

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-189 Numeric Errors (CWE/SANS Top 25)

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2015-10-13 Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.
File : ala_ALAS-2015-600.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-07-30 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2015-11465.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-07-22 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2015-11354.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-07-15 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2015-491.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-07-14 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-271.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2015-08-27 17:42:47
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2015-08-27 00:27:35
  • Multiple Updates
2015-08-25 00:27:07
  • First insertion