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SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : accountsservice (SUSE-SU-2018:3625-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 120155

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for accountsservice fixes the following issues :

This security issue was fixed :

CVE-2018-14036: Prevent directory traversal caused by an insufficient path check in user_change_icon_file_authorized_cb() (bsc#1099699)

Thsese non-security issues were fixed: Don't abort loading users when an /etc/shadow entry is missing. (bsc#1090003)

When user session type is wayland, act_user_is_logged_in can return TRUE if the user is logged in. (bsc#1095918)

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 Module for Desktop Applications 15:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Desktop-Applications-15-2018-2579=1

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1090003

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1095918

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1099699

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-14036/

http://www.nessus.org/u?0388a4c4

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 120155

File Name: suse_SU-2018-3625-1.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/2/2019

Updated: 7/10/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-14036

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libaccountsservice0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:accountsservice-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:accountsservice, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:accountsservice-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:typelib-1_0-accountsservice, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:accountsservice-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libaccountsservice0, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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: 11/5/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/13/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-14036