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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.67419
Category:Red Hat Local Security Checks
Title:RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2010:0449
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:
The remote host is missing updates announced in
advisory RHSA-2010:0449.

Red Hat Network Client Tools provide programs and libraries that allow your
system to receive software updates from the Red Hat Network (RHN).

It was discovered that rhn-client-tools set insecure permissions on the
loginAuth.pkl file, used to store session credentials for authenticating
connections to Red Hat Network servers. A local, unprivileged user could
use these credentials to download packages from the Red Hat Network. They
could also manipulate package or action lists associated with the system's
profile. (CVE-2010-1439)

Users of rhn-client-tools are advised to upgrade to these updated packages,
which contain a backported patch to correct this issue.

Solution:
Please note that this update is available via
Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network, launch the Red
Hat Update Agent with the following command: up2date

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0449.html
http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Risk factor : Medium

CVSS Score:
3.6

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2010-1439
1024049
http://securitytracker.com/id?1024049
39996
http://secunia.com/advisories/39996
40492
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/40492
65063
http://www.osvdb.org/65063
ADV-2010-1311
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1311
RHSA-2010:0449
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0449.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=585386
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9232
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9232
redhat-clienttools-loginauth-security-bypass(59114)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/59114
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