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SUSE SLED12 Security Update : netatalk (SUSE-SU-2018:4217-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 119870

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for netatalk fixes the following issues :

Security issue fixed :

CVE-2018-1160 Fixed a missing bounds check in the handling of the DSI OPEN SESSION request, which allowed an unauthenticated to overwrite memory with data of their choice leading to arbitrary code execution with root privileges. (bsc#1119540)

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 Workstation Extension 12-SP4:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-WE-12-SP4-2018-3027=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-WE-12-SP3-2018-3027=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP4:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP4-2018-3027=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP3-2018-3027=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP4:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP4-2018-3027=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP3-2018-3027=1

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1119540

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-1160/

http://www.nessus.org/u?2e6b0f63

https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2018-48

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 119870

File Name: suse_SU-2018-4217-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/24/2018

Updated: 7/12/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-1160

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libatalk12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libatalk12-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:netatalk-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:netatalk, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:netatalk-debugsource

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: 12/21/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/20/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1160