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SUSE SLES15 Security Update : libsolv, libzypp, yast2-installation, zypper (SUSE-SU-2021:0770-1)

low Nessus Plugin ID 147735

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for libsolv, libzypp, yast2-installation, zypper fixes the following issues :

Update zypper to version 1.14.43 :

doc: give more details about creating versioned package locks (bsc#1181622)

man: Document synonymously used patch categories (bsc#1179847)

Fix source-download commnds help (bsc#1180663)

man: Recommend to use the --non-interactive global option rather than the command option -y (bsc#1179816)

Extend apt packagemap (fixes #366)

--quiet: Fix install summary to write nothing if there's nothing todo (bsc#1180077)

Prefer /run over /var/run.

Update libzypp to 17.25.8 :

Try to provide a mounted /proc in --root installs (bsc#1181328) Some systemd tools require /proc to be mounted and fail if it's not there.

Enable release packages to request a releaxed suse/opensuse vendorcheck in dup when migrating. (bsc#1182629)

Patch: Identify well-known category names (bsc#1179847) This allows to use the RH and SUSE patch categrory names synonymously: (recommended = bugfix) and (optional = feature = enhancement).

Fix %posttrans script execution (fixes #265) The scripts are execuable. No need to call them through 'sh -c'.

Commit: Fix rpmdb compat symlink in case rpm got removed.

Repo: Allow multiple baseurls specified on one line (fixes #285)

Regex: Fix memory leak and undefined behavior.

Add rpm buildrequires for test suite (fixes #279)

Use rpmdb2solv new -D switch to tell the location ob the rpmdatabase to use.

BuildRequires: libsolv-devel >= 0.7.17.

CVE-2017-9271: Fixed information leak in the log file (bsc#1050625 bsc#1177583)

RepoManager: Force refresh if repo url has changed (bsc#1174016)

RepoManager: Carefully tidy up the caches. Remove non-directory entries. (bsc#1178966)

RepoInfo: ignore legacy type= in a .repo file and let RepoManager probe (bsc#1177427).

RpmDb: If no database exists use the _dbpath configured in rpm. Still makes sure a compat symlink at /var/lib/rpm exists in case the configures _dbpath is elsewhere. (bsc#1178910)

Fixed update of gpg keys with elongated expire date (bsc#1179222)

needreboot: remove udev from the list (bsc#1179083)

Fix lsof monitoring (bsc#1179909)

Rephrase solver problem descriptions (jsc#SLE-8482)

Adapt to changed gpg2/libgpgme behavior (bsc#1180721)

Multicurl backend breaks with with unknown filesize (fixes #277)

Update yast2-installation to 4.0.77 :

Do not cleanup the libzypp cache when the system has low memory, incomplete cache confuses libzypp later (bsc#1179415)

Update libsolv to 0.7.17 :

repo_write: fix handling of nested flexarray

improve choicerule generation a bit more to cover more cases

harden testcase parser against repos being added too late

support python-3.10

check %_dbpath macro in rpmdb code

handle default/visible/langonly attributes in comps parser

support multiple collections in updateinfo parser

add '-D' option in rpmdb2solv to set the dbpath

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 for SAP 15 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES_SAP-15-2021-770=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-LTSS :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES-15-2021-770=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Installer 15 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-INSTALLER-15-2021-770=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-LTSS :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-2021-770=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-ESPOS :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-2021-770=1

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1050625

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1174016

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1177238

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1177275

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1177427

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1177583

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1178910

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1178966

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1179083

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1179222

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1179415

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1179847

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1179909

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1181328

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1181622

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1182629

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-9271/

http://www.nessus.org/u?a34c3ca2

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 147735

File Name: suse_SU-2021-0770-1.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/12/2021

Updated: 1/9/2024

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: 1.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-9271

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.3

Temporal Score: 2.9

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:zypper, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsolv-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:zypper-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsolv-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python-solv-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsolv-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python-solv, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libzypp-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsolv-devel-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ruby-solv-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libzypp-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:zypper-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libzypp-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:perl-solv, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsolv-tools-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python3-solv, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsolv-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:perl-solv-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python3-solv-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libzypp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ruby-solv

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: 3/11/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/1/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-9271