Detections
Analytics

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : smt (SUSE-SU-2018:3467-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 118459

Language:

Synopsis

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

Description

SMT was updated to version 3.0.38.

Following security issue was fixed :

CVE-2018-12472: Harden hostname check during sibling check by forcing double reverse lookup (bsc#1104076)

Following non security issues were fixed: Add migration path check when registration sharing is enabled

Fix sibling sync errors (bsc#1111056) :

 - Synchronize all registered products

 - Handle duplicate registrations when syncing

 - Force resync to the sibling instance in `upgrade` and `synchronize` API calls

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 OpenStack Cloud 7:zypper in -t patch SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-7-2018-2481=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-SP2-2018-2481=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-2018-2481=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-LTSS:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-2018-2481=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-BCL:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-BCL-2018-2481=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1-LTSS:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP1-2018-2481=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Public Cloud 12:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Public-Cloud-12-2018-2481=1

SUSE Enterprise Storage 4:zypper in -t patch SUSE-Storage-4-2018-2481=1

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1104076

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1111056

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12472/

http://www.nessus.org/u?b5afb150

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 118459

File Name: suse_SU-2018-3467-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/26/2018

Updated: 2/2/2022

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-12472

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 7.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/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:res-signingkeys, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:smt-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:smt, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:smt-support, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:smt-debugsource

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: 10/25/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/4/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-12472