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SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : s390-tools (SUSE-SU-2021:0777-1)

low Nessus Plugin ID 147788

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for s390-tools fixes the following issues :

Fixed an issue where IPL was not working when bootloader was installed on a SCSI disk with 4k physical blocksize without using a devicemapper target (bsc#1183041).

CVE-2021-25316: Do not use predictable temporary file names (bsc#1182777).

Made the name of the temporary configuration file in /tmp/ unpredictable (bsc#1182876).

Changing the scheduler from 'deadline' to the newly created 'mq-deadline' scheduler (bsc#1176574)

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 Basesystem 15-SP2 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP2-2021-777=1

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1176574

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1182777

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1182876

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1183040

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-25316/

http://www.nessus.org/u?f766ab1b

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 147788

File Name: suse_SU-2021-0777-1.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/15/2021

Updated: 1/9/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-25316

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.3

Temporal Score: 3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:osasnmpd, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:s390-tools-zdsfs-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:osasnmpd-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:s390-tools-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:s390-tools-hmcdrvfs-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:s390-tools-hmcdrvfs, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:s390-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:s390-tools-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:s390-tools-zdsfs, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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: 3/12/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/14/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-25316