SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : Recommended update for adcli, sssd (SUSE-SU-2019:0805-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 123549

Synopsis

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

Description

This update for adcli and sssd provides the following improvement :

Security vulnerability fixed :

CVE-2019-3811: Fix fallback_homedir returning '/' for empty home directories (bsc#1121759)

Other fixes: Add an option to disable checking for trusted domains in the subdomains provider (bsc#1125617)

Clear pid file in corner cases (bsc#1127670)

Fix child unable to write to log file after SIGHUP (bsc#1127670)

Include adcli in SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP3 for sssd-ad.
(fate#326619, bsc#1109849)

The adcli enables sssd to do password renewal when using Active Directory.

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 Software Development Kit 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP3-2019-805=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-2019-805=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP3-2019-805=1

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1109849

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1110121

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1121759

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1125617

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1127670

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-3811/

http://www.nessus.org/u?2851976d

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 123549

File Name: suse_SU-2019-0805-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/1/2019

Updated: 6/6/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.7

Temporal Score: 2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-3811

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.2

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsss_nss_idmap0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:sssd-ldap-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:sssd-proxy, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:sssd-tools-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:sssd-ldap, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:sssd-krb5-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:sssd-ipa-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:sssd-krb5, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:sssd-ad, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:adcli-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsss_idmap0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:sssd-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:adcli, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsss_sudo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:sssd-krb5-common-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python-sssd-config, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:sssd-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:sssd-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsss_idmap0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:adcli-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libipa_hbac0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libipa_hbac0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python-sssd-config-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:sssd-proxy-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:sssd-krb5-common, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsss_nss_idmap0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:sssd-ad-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsss_sudo-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:sssd, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:sssd-ipa

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: 3/29/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/15/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-3811