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openSUSE Security Update : trousers (openSUSE-2020-744)

high Nessus Plugin ID 136996

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for trousers fixes the following issues :

 - CVE-2019-18898: Fixed a local symlink attack where a rogue tss user could have gain ownership of arbitrary files in the system during installation/update of the trousers package (bsc#1157651).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15-SP1:Update update project.

Solution

Update the affected trousers packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1157651

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 136996

File Name: openSUSE-2020-744.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/1/2020

Updated: 3/8/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, 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-2019-18898

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:opensuse:trousers, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:trousers-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:trousers-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libtspi1-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libtspi1-32bit-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:trousers-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libtspi1-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libtspi1

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: 5/29/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/23/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-18898