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SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : systemd (SUSE-SU-2019:1265-1)
high Nessus Plugin ID 125244
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Synopsis
The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.Description
This update for systemd fixes the following issues :Security issues fixed :
CVE-2018-6954: Fixed a vulnerability in the symlink handling of systemd-tmpfiles which allowed a local user to obtain ownership of arbitrary files (bsc#1080919).
CVE-2019-3842: Fixed a vulnerability in pam_systemd which allowed a local user to escalate privileges (bsc#1132348).
CVE-2019-6454: Fixed a denial of service caused by long dbus messages (bsc#1125352).
Non-security issues fixed: systemd-coredump: generate a stack trace of all core dumps (jsc#SLE-5933)
udevd: notify when max number value of children is reached only once per batch of events (bsc#1132400)
sd-bus: bump message queue size again (bsc#1132721)
core: only watch processes when it's really necessary (bsc#955942 bsc#1128657)
rules: load drivers only on 'add' events (bsc#1126056)
sysctl: Don't pass null directive argument to '%s' (bsc#1121563)
Do not automatically online memory on s390x (bsc#1127557)
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-7-2019-1265=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP4:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP4-2019-1265=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP3-2019-1265=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-SP2-2019-1265=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP4:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP4-2019-1265=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-2019-1265=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-LTSS:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-2019-1265=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-BCL:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-BCL-2019-1265=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP4:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP4-2019-1265=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP3-2019-1265=1
SUSE Enterprise Storage 4:zypper in -t patch SUSE-Storage-4-2019-1265=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-7-2019-1265=1
See Also
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1130230
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1132348
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1132400
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1132721
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=955942
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-6954/
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-3842/
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-6454/
http://www.nessus.org/u?bb92010a
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1080919
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1121563
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1125352
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1126056
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 125244
File Name: suse_SU-2019-1265-1.nasl
Version: 1.5
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: SuSE Local Security Checks
Published: 5/17/2019
Updated: 5/22/2024
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 6.7
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.2
Temporal Score: 5.6
Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-6954
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.8
Temporal Score: 7
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/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: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:libudev-devel, 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:systemd, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:udev, 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 Available: true
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 5/16/2019
Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/13/2018