openSUSE Security Update : icinga2 (openSUSE-2020-1820)

high Nessus Plugin ID 142522

Language:

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for icinga2 fixes the following issues :

- Info that since version 2.12.0 following security issue is fixed: prepare-dirs script allows for symlink attack in the icinga user context. boo#1172171 (CVE-2020-14004)

Update to 2.12.1 :

- Bugfixes

+ Core

- Fix crashes during config update #8348 #8345

- Fix crash while removing a downtime #8228

- Ensure the daemon doesn't get killed by logrotate #8170

- Fix hangup during shutdown #8211

- Fix a deadlock in Icinga DB #8168

- Clean up zombie processes during reload #8376

- Reduce check latency #8276

+ IDO

- Prevent unnecessary IDO updates #8327 #8320

- Commit IDO MySQL transactions earlier #8349

- Make sure to insert IDO program status #8330

- Improve IDO queue stats logging #8271 #8328 #8379

+ Misc

- Ensure API connections are closed properly #8293

- Prevent unnecessary notifications #8299

- Don't skip null values of command arguments #8174

- Fix Windows .exe version #8234

- Reset Icinga check warning after successful config update #8189

Update to 2.12.0 :

- Breaking changes

- Deprecate Windows plugins in favor of our

- PowerShell plugins #8071

- Deprecate Livestatus #8051

- Refuse acknowledging an already acknowledged checkable #7695

- Config lexer: complain on EOF in heredocs, i.e.
(((abc<EOF> #7541

- Enhancements

+ Core

- Implement new database backend: Icinga DB #7571

- Re-send notifications previously suppressed by their time periods #7816

+ API

- Host/Service: Add acknowledgement_last_change and next_update attributes #7881 #7534

- Improve error message for POST queries #7681

- /v1/actions/remove-comment: let users specify themselves #7646

- /v1/actions/remove-downtime: let users specify themselves #7645

- /v1/config/stages: Add 'activate' parameter #7535

+ CLI

- Add pki verify command for better TLS certificate troubleshooting #7843

- Add OpenSSL version to 'Build' section in --version #7833

- Improve experience with 'Node Setup for Agents/Satellite' #7835

+ DSL

- Add get_template() and get_templates() #7632

- MacroProcessor::ResolveArguments(): skip null argument values #7567

- Fix crash due to dependency apply rule with ignore_on_error and non-existing parent #7538

- Introduce ternary operator (x ? y : z) #7442

- LegacyTimePeriod: support specifying seconds #7439

- Add support for Lambda Closures (() use(x) => x and () use(x) => ( return x )) #7417

+ ITL

- Add notemp parameter to oracle health #7748

- Add extended checks options to snmp-interface command template #7602

- Add file age check for Windows command definition #7540

+ Docs

- Development: Update debugging instructions #7867

- Add new API clients #7859

- Clarify CRITICAL vs. UNKNOWN #7665

- Explicitly explain how to disable freshness checks #7664

- Update installation for RHEL/CentOS 8 and SLES 15 #7640

- Add Powershell example to validate the certificate #7603

+ Misc

- Don't send event::Heartbeat to unauthenticated peers #7747

- OpenTsdbWriter: Add custom tag support #7357

- Bugfixes

+ Core

- Fix JSON-RPC crashes #7532 #7737

- Fix zone definitions in zones #7546

- Fix deadlock during start on OpenBSD #7739

- Consider PENDING not a problem #7685

- Fix zombie processes after reload #7606

- Don't wait for checks to finish during reload #7894

+ Cluster

- Fix segfault during heartbeat timeout with clients not yet signed #7970

- Make the config update process mutually exclusive (Prevents file system race conditions) #7936

- Fix check_timeout not being forwarded to agent command endpoints #7861

- Config sync: Use a more friendly message when configs are equal and don't need a reload #7811

- Fix open connections when agent waits for CA approval #7686

- Consider a JsonRpcConnection alive on a single byte of TLS payload, not only on a whole message #7836

- Send JsonRpcConnection heartbeat every 20s instead of 10s #8102

- Use JsonRpcConnection heartbeat only to update connection liveness (m_Seen) #8142

- Fix TLS context not being updated on signed certificate messages on agents #7654

+ API

- Close connections w/o successful TLS handshakes after 10s #7809

- Handle permission exceptions soon enough, returning 404 #7528

+ SELinux

- Fix safe-reload #7858

- Allow direct SMTP notifications #7749

+ Windows

- Terminate check processes with UNKNOWN state on timeout #7788

- Ensure that log replay files are properly renamed #7767

+ Metrics

- Graphite/OpenTSDB: Ensure that reconnect failure is detected #7765

- Always send 0 as value for thresholds #7696

+ Scripts

- Fix notification scripts to stay compatible with Dash #7706

- Fix bash line continuation in mail-host-notification.sh #7701

- Fix notification scripts string comparison #7647

- Service and host mail-notifications: Add line-breaks to very long output #6822

- Set correct UTF-8 email subject header (RFC1342) #6369

+ Misc

- DSL: Fix segfault due to passing null as custom function to Array#(sort,map,reduce,filter,any,all)() #8053

- CLI: pki save-cert: allow to specify --key and --cert for backwards compatibility #7995

- Catch exception when trusted cert is not readable during node setup on agent/satellite #7838

- CheckCommand ssl: Fix wrong parameter -N #7741

- Code quality fixes

- Small documentation fixes

- Update to 2.11.5 Version 2.11.5 fixes file system race conditions in the config update process occurring in large HA environments and improves the cluster connection liveness mechanisms.

- Bugfixes

+ Make the config update process mutually exclusive (Prevents file system race conditions) #8093

+ Consider a JsonRpcConnection alive on a single byte of TLS payload, not only on a whole message #8094

+ Send JsonRpcConnection heartbeat every 20s instead of 10s #8103

+ Use JsonRpcConnection heartbeat only to update connection liveness (m_Seen) #8097

- Update to 2.11.4 Version 2.11.4 fixes a crash during a heartbeat timeout with clients not yet signed. It also resolves an issue with endpoints not reconnecting after a reload/deploy, which caused a lot of UNKNOWN states.

- Bugfixes

+ Cluster

- Fix segfault during heartbeat timeout with clients not yet signed #7997

- Fix endpoints not reconnecting after reload (UNKNOWN hosts/services after reload) #8043

+ Setup

- Fix exception on trusted cert not readable during node setup #8044

- prepare-dirs: Only set permissions during directory creation #8046

+ DSL

- Fix segfault on missing compare function in Array functions (sort, map, reduce, filter, any, all) #8054

- Update to 2.11.3

- Bugfixes

- Cluster Fix JSON-RPC crashes (#7532) in large environments: #7846 #7848 #7849

- Set minimum require boost version to 1.66

- Fix boo#1159869 Permission error when use the icinga cli wizard.

- BuildRequire pkgconfig(libsystemd) instead of systemd-devel: Aloow OBS to shortcut through the -mini flavors.

- Update to 2.11.2 This release fixes a problem where the newly introduced config sync 'check-change-then-reload' functionality could cause endless reload loops with agents. The most visible parts are failing command endpoint checks with 'not connected' UNKNOWN state. Only applies to HA enabled zones with 2 masters and/or 2 satellites.

- Bugfixes

- Cluster Config Sync

- Config sync checksum change detection may not work within high load HA clusters #7565

- Update to 2.11.1 This release fixes a hidden long lasting bug unveiled with 2.11 and distributed setups.
If you are affected by agents/satellites not accepting configuration anymore, or not reloading, please upgrade.

- Bugfixes

- Cluster Config Sync

- Never accept authoritative config markers from other instances #7552

- This affects setups where agent/satellites are newer than the config master, e.g. satellite/agent=2.11.0, master=2.10.

- Configuration

- Error message for command_endpoint should hint that zone is not set #7514

- Global variable 'ActiveStageOverride' has been set implicitly via 'ActiveStageOverride ... #7521

- Documentation

- Docs: Add upgrading/troubleshooting details for repos, config sync, agents #7526

- Explain repository requirements for 2.11:
https://icinga.com/docs/icinga2/latest/doc/16-upgrading- icinga-2/#added-boost-166

- command_endpoint objects require a zone:
https://icinga.com/docs/icinga2/latest/doc/16-upgrading- icinga-2/#agent-hosts-with-command-endpoint-require-a-zo ne

- Zones declared in zones.d are not loaded anymore:
https://icinga.com/docs/icinga2/latest/doc/16-upgrading- icinga-2/#config-sync-zones-in-zones

- Update to 2.11.0

- Core

- Rewrite Network Stack (cluster, REST API) based on Boost Asio, Beast, Coroutines

- Technical concept: #7041

- Requires package updates: Boost >1.66 (either from packages.icinga.com, EPEL or backports). SLES11 & Ubuntu 14 are EOL.

- Require TLS 1.2 and harden default cipher list

- Improved Reload Handling (umbrella process, now 3 processes at runtime)

- Support running Icinga 2 in (Docker) containers natively in foreground

- Quality: Use Modern JSON for C++ library instead of YAJL (dead project)

- Quality: Improve handling of invalid UTF8 strings

- API

- Fix crashes on Linux, Unix and Windows from Nessus scans #7431

- Locks and stalled waits are fixed with the core rewrite in #7071

- schedule-downtime action supports all_services for host downtimes

- Improve storage handling for runtime created objects in the _api package

- Cluster

- HA aware features & improvements for failover handling #2941 #7062

- Improve cluster config sync with staging #6716

- Fixed that same downtime/comment objects would be synced again in a cluster loop #7198

- Checks & Notifications

- Ensure that notifications during a restart are sent

- Immediately notify about a problem after leaving a downtime and still NOT-OK

- Improve reload handling and wait for features/metrics

- Store notification command results and sync them in HA enabled zones #6722

- DSL/Configuration

- Add getenv() function

- Fix TimePeriod range support over midnight

- concurrent_checks in the Checker feature has no effect, use the global MaxConcurrentChecks constant instead

- CLI

- Permissions: node wizard/setup, feature, api setup now run in the Icinga user context, not root

- ca list shows pending CSRs by default, ca remove/restore allow to delete signing requests

- ITL

- Add new commands and missing attributes

- Windows

- Update bundled NSClient++ to 0.5.2.39

- Refine agent setup wizard & update requirements to .NET 4.6

- Documentation

- Service Monitoring: How to create plugins by example, check commands and a modern version of the supported plugin API with best practices

- Features: Better structure on metrics, and supported features

- Technical Concepts: TLS Network IO, Cluster Feature HA, Cluster Config Sync

- Development: Rewritten for better debugging and development experience for contributors including a style guide. Add nightly build setup instructions.

- Packaging: INSTALL.md was integrated into the Development chapter, being available at https://icinga.com/docs too.

- Update to 2.10.6

- Bugfixes

- Fix el7 not loading ECDHE cipher suites #7247

- update to 2.10.5

- Core

- Fix crashes with logrotate signals #6737 (thanks Elias Ohm)

- API

- Fix crashes and problems with permission filters from recent Namespace introduction #6785 (thanks Elias Ohm) #6874 (backported from 2.11)

- Reduce log spam with locked connections (real fix is the network stack rewrite in 2.11) #6877

- Cluster

- Fix problems with replay log rotation and storage #6932 (thanks Peter Eckel)

- IDO DB

- Fix that reload shutdown deactivates hosts and hostgroups (introduced in 2.9) #7157

- Documentation

- Improve the REST API chapter: Unix timestamp handling, filters, unify POST requests with filters in the body

- Better layout for the features chapter, specifically metrics and events

- Split object types into monitoring, runtime, features

- Add technical concepts for cluster messages

Solution

Update the affected icinga2 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1159869

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1172171

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1174075

https://icinga.com/docs

http://www.nessus.org/u?523cf707

http://www.nessus.org/u?a1dc9ab8

http://www.nessus.org/u?a7574676

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 142522

File Name: openSUSE-2020-1820.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/6/2020

Updated: 2/9/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, 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-2020-14004

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:icinga2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:icinga2-bin, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:icinga2-bin-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:icinga2-common, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:icinga2-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:icinga2-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:icinga2-ido-mysql, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:icinga2-ido-mysql-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:icinga2-ido-pgsql, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:icinga2-ido-pgsql-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:nano-icinga2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:vim-icinga2, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.1, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.2

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: 11/2/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/12/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-14004