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SUSE SLED12 Security Update : puppet (SUSE-SU-2018:0571-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 107115

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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 :

 - CVE-2017-10689: Reset permissions when unpacking tar in PMT. When using minitar, files were unpacked with whatever permissions are in the tarball. This is potentially unsafe, as tarballs can be easily created with weird permissions (bsc#1080288)

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-12-2018-379=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP3-2018-379=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP2-2018-379=1

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

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1080288

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-10689/

http://www.nessus.org/u?dba1c898

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 107115

File Name: suse_SU-2018-0571-1.nasl

Version: 3.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/2/2018

Updated: 9/10/2019

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/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: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: 3/1/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/9/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-10689