SUSE SLES12 Security Update : mgetty (SUSE-SU-2020:0853-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 135196

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for mgetty fixes the following issues :

CVE-2019-1010190: Fixed a denial of service which could be caused by a local attacker in putwhitespan() (bsc#1142770).

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 Server 12-SP5:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-2020-853=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP4:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP4-2020-853=1

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1142770

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-1010190/

http://www.nessus.org/u?ad0610c8

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 135196

File Name: suse_SU-2020-0853-1.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/3/2020

Updated: 3/19/2024

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: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-1010190

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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:mgetty, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mgetty-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:g3utils, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:g3utils-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mgetty-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: 4/2/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/24/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-1010190