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SUSE SLES15 Security Update : slurm (SUSE-SU-2020:2602-1)
high Nessus Plugin ID 140515
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Synopsis
The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.Description
This update for slurm fixes the following issues :Fix Authentication Bypass when Message Aggregation is enabled CVE-2020-12693 This fixes and issue where authentication could be bypassed via an alternate path or channel when message Aggregation was enabled. A race condition allowed a user to launch a process as an arbitrary user. Add :
Fix-Authentication-Bypass-when-Message-Aggregation-is-enabled-CVE-2020
-1269 3.patch (CVE-2020-12693, bsc#1172004).
Remove unneeded build dependency to postgresql-devel.
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 HPC 15-SP1 :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-HPC-15-SP1-2020-2602=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-LTSS :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-2020-2602=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-ESPOS :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-2020-2602=1
See Also
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1172004
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-19727/
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 140515
File Name: suse_SU-2020-2602-1.nasl
Version: 1.3
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: SuSE Local Security Checks
Published: 9/11/2020
Updated: 5/12/2022
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: 5.3
Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-1269
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 8.1
Temporal Score: 7.1
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-12693
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libslurm32, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libslurm32-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15
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: 9/10/2020
Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/13/2020