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SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : accountsservice (SUSE-SU-2019:2778-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 130256

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for accountsservice fixes the following issues :

Security issue fixed :

CVE-2018-14036: Prevent directory traversal caused by an insufficient path check in user_change_icon_file_authorized_cb() (bsc#1099699).

Non-security issue fixed: Improved wtmp io performance (bsc#1139487).

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-SP5:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP5-2019-2778=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP4:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP4-2019-2778=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-2019-2778=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP4:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP4-2019-2778=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP5:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP5-2019-2778=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP4:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP4-2019-2778=1

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1099699

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1139487

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-14036/

http://www.nessus.org/u?d29fcd75

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 130256

File Name: suse_SU-2019-2778-1.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/25/2019

Updated: 4/16/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-14036

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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:libaccountsservice0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:accountsservice-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:accountsservice, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:typelib-1_0-accountsservice, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:accountsservice-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libaccountsservice0

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: 10/24/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/13/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-14036