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SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : libzypp, zypper (SUSE-SU-2017:2344-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 102955

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Synopsis

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

Description

The Software Update Stack was updated to receive fixes and enhancements. libzypp :

 - Adapt to work with GnuPG 2.1.23. (bsc#1054088)

 - Support signing with subkeys. (bsc#1008325)

 - Enhance sort order for media.1/products. (bsc#1054671) zypper :

 - Also show a gpg key's subkeys. (bsc#1008325)

 - Improve signature check callback messages. (bsc#1045735)

 - Add options to tune the GPG check settings.
 (bsc#1045735)

 - Adapt download callback to report and handle unsigned packages. (bsc#1038984, CVE-2017-7436)

 - Report missing/optional files as 'not found' rather than 'error'. (bsc#1047785)

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 Software Development Kit 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP3-2017-1447=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-2017-1447=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP3-2017-1447=1

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

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1054671

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1055920

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7436/

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1008325

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1038984

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1045735

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1047785

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1054088

http://www.nessus.org/u?abf6132a

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 102955

File Name: suse_SU-2017-2344-1.nasl

Version: 3.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/5/2017

Updated: 1/6/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 6.9

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libzypp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libzypp-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libzypp-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:zypper, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:zypper-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:zypper-debugsource, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12

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: 9/4/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/1/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-7436