SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : systemd (SUSE-SU-2019:1364-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 125537

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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-2019-3842: Fixed a privilege escalation in pam_systemd which could be exploited by a local user (bsc#1132348).

CVE-2019-6454: Fixed a denial of service via crafted D-Bus message (bsc#1125352).

CVE-2019-3843, CVE-2019-3844: Fixed a privilege escalation where services with DynamicUser could gain new privileges or create SUID/SGID binaries (bsc#1133506, bsc#1133509).

Non-security issued fixed: logind: fix killing of scopes (bsc#1125604)

namespace: make MountFlags=shared work again (bsc#1124122)

rules: load drivers only on 'add' events (bsc#1126056)

sysctl: Don't pass null directive argument to '%s' (bsc#1121563)

systemd-coredump: generate a stack trace of all core dumps and log into the journal (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)

Do not automatically online memory on s390x (bsc#1127557)

Removed sg.conf (bsc#1036463)

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 Open Buildservice Development Tools 15:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Development-Tools-OBS-15-2019-1364=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-2019-1364=1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 125537

File Name: suse_SU-2019-1364-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 5/29/2019

Updated: 1/13/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-3844

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: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsystemd0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsystemd0-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsystemd0-32bit-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsystemd0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsystemd0-mini, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsystemd0-mini-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libudev-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libudev-mini-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libudev-mini1, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libudev-mini1-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libudev1, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libudev1-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:systemd-container-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:systemd-coredump, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:systemd-coredump-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:systemd-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:systemd-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:systemd-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:systemd-logger, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:systemd-mini, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:systemd-mini-container-mini, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:systemd-mini-container-mini-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:systemd-mini-coredump-mini, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:systemd-mini-coredump-mini-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:systemd-mini-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:systemd-mini-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:systemd-mini-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:systemd-mini-sysvinit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:systemd-sysvinit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:udev, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:udev-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:udev-mini, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:udev-mini-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libudev1-32bit-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libudev1-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nss-myhostname, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nss-myhostname-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nss-mymachines, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nss-mymachines-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nss-systemd, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nss-systemd-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:systemd, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:systemd-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:systemd-32bit-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:systemd-container

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: 5/28/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/21/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-3842, CVE-2019-3843, CVE-2019-3844, CVE-2019-6454

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