Synopsis
The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
Description
This update for systemd fixes the following issues :
Security vulnerability fixed :
CVE-2019-6454: Fixed a crash of PID1 by sending specially crafted D-BUS message on the system bus by an unprivileged user (bsc#1125352)
Other bug fixes and changes: journal-remote: set a limit on the number of fields in a message
journal-remote: verify entry length from header
journald: set a limit on the number of fields (1k)
journald: do not store the iovec entry for process commandline on stack
core: include Found state in device dumps
device: fix serialization and deserialization of DeviceFound
fix path in btrfs rule (#6844)
assemble multidevice btrfs volumes without external tools (#6607) (bsc#1117025)
Update systemd-system.conf.xml (bsc#1122000)
units: inform user that the default target is started after exiting from rescue or emergency mode
manager: don't skip sigchld handler for main and control pid for services (#3738)
core: Add helper functions unit_{main, control}_pid
manager: Fixing a debug printf formatting mistake (#3640)
manager: Only invoke a single sigchld per unit within a cleanup cycle (bsc#1117382)
core: update invoke_sigchld_event() to handle NULL ->sigchld_event()
sd-event: expose the event loop iteration counter via sd_event_get_iteration() (#3631)
unit: rework a bit how we keep the service fdstore from being destroyed during service restart (bsc#1122344)
core: when restarting services, don't close fds
cryptsetup: Add dependency on loopback setup to generated units
journal-gateway: use localStorage['cursor'] only when it has valid value
journal-gateway: explicitly declare local variables
analyze: actually select longest activated-time of services
sd-bus: fix implicit downcast of bitfield reported by LGTM
core: free lines after reading them (bsc#1123892)
pam_systemd: reword message about not creating a session (bsc#1111498)
pam_systemd: suppress LOG_DEBUG log messages if debugging is off (bsc#1111498)
main: improve RLIMIT_NOFILE handling (#5795) (bsc#1120658)
sd-bus: if we receive an invalid dbus message, ignore and proceeed
automount: don't pass non-blocking pipe to kernel.
units: make sure initrd-cleanup.service terminates before switching to rootfs (bsc#1123333)
units: add Wants=initrd-cleanup.service to initrd-switch-root.target (#4345) (bsc#1123333)
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-7-2019-428=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP4:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP4-2019-428=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP3-2019-428=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-SP2-2019-428=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP4:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP4-2019-428=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-2019-428=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-LTSS:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-2019-428=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-BCL:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-BCL-2019-428=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP4:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP4-2019-428=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP3-2019-428=1
SUSE Enterprise Storage 4:zypper in -t patch SUSE-Storage-4-2019-428=1
SUSE CaaS Platform ALL :
To install this update, use the SUSE CaaS Platform Velum dashboard. It will inform you if it detects new updates and let you then trigger updating of the complete cluster in a controlled way.
SUSE CaaS Platform 3.0 :
To install this update, use the SUSE CaaS Platform Velum dashboard. It will inform you if it detects new updates and let you then trigger updating of the complete cluster in a controlled way.
OpenStack Cloud Magnum Orchestration 7:zypper in -t patch SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-Magnum-Orchestration-7-2019-428=1
Plugin Details
File Name: suse_SU-2019-0428-1.nasl
Agent: unix
Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus
Risk Information
Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/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:systemd-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:udev-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libudev1, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsystemd0-debuginfo-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libudev1-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libudev1-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:systemd-debuginfo-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:udev, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:systemd, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:systemd-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsystemd0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsystemd0-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:systemd-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsystemd0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libudev1-debuginfo-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:systemd-sysvinit
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 2/19/2019
Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/21/2019