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openSUSE 15 Security Update : systemd (openSUSE-SU-2021:2410-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 151838

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SUSE15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2021:2410-1 advisory.

 - basic/unit-name.c in systemd 220 through 248 has a Memory Allocation with an Excessive Size Value (involving strdupa and alloca for a pathname controlled by a local attacker) that results in an operating system crash. (CVE-2021-33910)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1188063

http://www.nessus.org/u?b9fbabbb

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-33910

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 151838

File Name: openSUSE-2021-2410.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/21/2021

Updated: 1/20/2022

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-33910

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:nss-myhostname-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:nss-systemd, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:nss-myhostname, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libsystemd0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libudev-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:nss-resolve, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:systemd-network, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:nss-mymachines-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libsystemd0-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:systemd-container, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:nss-mymachines, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:systemd-sysvinit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:systemd-journal-remote, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:udev, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:systemd-logger, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.3, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libudev1-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:systemd, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:systemd-coredump, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:systemd-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libudev1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:systemd-lang, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libudev-devel-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:systemd-devel

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: 7/20/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/20/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-33910

IAVA: 2021-A-0350