openSUSE Security Update : salt (openSUSE-2017-1182)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 104086

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

Salt was updated to 2017.7.2 and also to fix various bugs and security issues.

See https://docs.saltstack.com/en/develop/topics/releases/2017.7.2.html for full changelog.

Security issues fixed :

- CVE-2017-14695: A directory traversal during minion id validation was fixed. (boo#1062462)

- CVE-2017-14696: A remote denial of service attack with a specially crafted authentication request was fixed.
(boo#1062464)

Non security issues fixed :

- Add possibility to generate _version.py at the build time for raw builds:
https://github.com/saltstack/salt/pull/43955

- Fix salt target-type field returns 'String' for existing jids but an empty 'Array' for non existing jids. (issue #1711)

- Fixed minion resource exhaustion when many functions are being executed in parallel (boo#1059758)

- Remove 'TasksTask' attribute from salt-master.service in older versions of systemd (boo#985112)

- Provide custom SUSE salt-master.service file.

- Fix wrong version reported by Salt (boo#1061407)

- list_pkgs: add parameter for returned attribute selection (boo#1052264)

- Adding the leftover for zypper and yum list_pkgs functionality.

- Use $HOME to get the user home directory instead using '~' char (boo#1042749)

Solution

Update the affected salt packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 104086

File Name: openSUSE-2017-1182.nasl

Version: 3.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 10/23/2017

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:salt-minion, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:salt-syndic, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:salt-fish-completion, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:salt-cloud, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:salt-ssh, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:salt-zsh-completion, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:salt-master, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:salt-bash-completion, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.3, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:salt, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:salt-proxy, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:salt-api

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

Patch Publication Date: 10/20/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-14695, CVE-2017-14696

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