SUSE SLES11 Security Update : apport (SUSE-SU-2017:1938-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 101941

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

This update for apport fixes the following issues: Security issue fixed :

- CVE-2015-1338: Insecurely created crash dumps could lead to a DoS or privilege escalation through malicious symlinks. (bsc#947731)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch slessp4-apport-13220=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 101941

File Name: suse_SU-2017-1938-1.nasl

Version: 3.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 7/25/2017

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:apport-crashdb-sle, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:apport-gtk, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:apport

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/24/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/1/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-1338

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