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SUSE SLES11 Security Update : rsync (SUSE-SU-2018:0172-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 106261

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for rsync fixes one issues. This security issue was fixed :

 - CVE-2018-5764: The parse_arguments function in options.c did not prevent multiple --protect-args uses, which allowed remote attackers to bypass an argument-sanitization protection mechanism (bsc#1076503)

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-rsync-13428=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch dbgsp4-rsync-13428=1

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

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1076503

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-5764/

http://www.nessus.org/u?6e5a6fae

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 106261

File Name: suse_SU-2018-0172-1.nasl

Version: 3.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/23/2018

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:rsync

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: 1/22/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/17/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-5764