SUSE SLES12 Security Update : glibc (SUSE-SU-2018:2187-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 111547

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for glibc fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed :

- CVE-2017-15804: Fix buffer overflow during unescaping of user names in the glob function in glob.c (bsc#1064580).

- CVE-2017-15670: Fix buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (bsc#1064583).

- CVE-2017-15671: Fix memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (bsc#1064569).

- CVE-2018-11236: Fix 32bit arch integer overflow in stdlib/canonicalize.c when processing very long pathname arguments (bsc#1094161).

- CVE-2017-12132: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard against fragmentation attacks (bsc#1051791).

- CVE-2018-1000001: Avoid underflow of malloced area (bsc#1074293).

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 12-LTSS:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2018-1484=1

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 111547

File Name: suse_SU-2018-2187-1.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 8/6/2018

Updated: 8/26/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-11236

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9.1

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:X

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glibc-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nscd-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glibc, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glibc-devel-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glibc-locale-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glibc-profile, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glibc-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nscd, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glibc-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glibc-locale

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/3/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/1/2017

Exploitable With

Metasploit (glibc realpath() Privilege Escalation)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-12132, CVE-2017-15670, CVE-2017-15671, CVE-2017-15804, CVE-2018-1000001, CVE-2018-11236

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