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SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : systemd (SUSE-SU-2022:0043-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 156644

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLES15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:0043-1 advisory.

 - A flaw was found in systemd. An uncontrolled recursion in systemd-tmpfiles may lead to a denial of service at boot time when too many nested directories are created in /tmp. (CVE-2021-3997)

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/1178561

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1190515

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1194178

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3997

http://www.nessus.org/u?e7e9b218

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 156644

File Name: suse_SU-2022-0043-1.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/12/2022

Updated: 7/14/2023

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: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-3997

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:suse_linux:systemd-journal-remote, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libudev1, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libudev-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libudev1-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:systemd-container, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:udev, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:systemd, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:systemd-lang, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:systemd-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsystemd0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsystemd0-32bit, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:systemd-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:systemd-coredump, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:systemd-doc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:systemd-sysvinit

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: 1/11/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/8/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-3997

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:0043-1