SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : audit (SUSE-SU-2019:1166-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 124694

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for audit fixes the following issues :

Audit on SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP3 was updated to 2.8.1 to bring new features and bugfixes. (bsc#1125535 FATE#326346)

Many features were added to auparse_normalize

cli option added to auditd and audispd for setting config dir

In auditd, restore the umask after creating a log file

Option added to auditd for skipping email verification

The full changelog can be found here:
http://people.redhat.com/sgrubb/audit/ChangeLog Change openldap dependency to client only (bsc#1085003)

Minor security issue fixed: CVE-2015-5186: Audit: log terminal emulator escape sequences handling (bsc#941922)

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-SP3-2019-1166=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-2019-1166=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP3-2019-1166=1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 124694

File Name: suse_SU-2019-1166-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 5/8/2019

Updated: 5/28/2024

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: 1.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-5186

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/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:audit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libaudit1, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libauparse0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:audit-audispd-plugins, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libaudit1-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libauparse0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:audit-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: 5/7/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/6/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-5186

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