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SUSE SLED12 Security Update : puppet (SUSE-SU-2017:2113-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 102352

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Synopsis

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

Description

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

 - CVE-2017-2295: Possible code execution vulnerability where an attacker could force YAML deserialization in an unsafe manner. In default, this update breaks a backwards compatibility with Puppet agents older than 3.2.2 as the SLE12 master doesn't support other fact formats than pson in default anymore. In order to allow users to continue using their SLE12 master/SLE11 agents setup and fix CVE-2017-2295 for the others, a new puppet master boolean option 'dangerous_fact_formats' was added. When it's set to true it enables using dangerous fact formats (e.g. YAML). When it's set to false, only PSON fact format is accepted. (bsc#1040151)

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 Module for Advanced Systems Management 12:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Adv-Systems-Management-12-2017-1310=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP3-2017-1310=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP2-2017-1310=1

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

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1040151

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-2295/

http://www.nessus.org/u?29e59b1e

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 102352

File Name: suse_SU-2017-2113-1.nasl

Version: 3.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/10/2017

Updated: 1/6/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6

Temporal Score: 4.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.2

Temporal Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:puppet

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/9/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/5/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-2295