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SUSE SLES11 Security Update : coreutils (SUSE-SU-2018:0866-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 108830

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for coreutils fixes one issue. This security issue was fixed :

 - CVE-2017-2616: In su with PAM support it was possible for local users to send SIGKILL to selected other processes with root privileges (bsc#1023041)

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 the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or 'zypper patch'.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch slessp4-coreutils-13546=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch dbgsp4-coreutils-13546=1

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1023041

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-2616/

http://www.nessus.org/u?d286ac5b

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 108830

File Name: suse_SU-2018-0866-1.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/4/2018

Updated: 11/21/2024

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: 4.7

Temporal Score: 3.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-2616

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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: 4/3/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/27/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-2616