SUSE SLES15 Security Update : trousers (SUSE-SU-2022:2798-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 164096

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:2798-1 advisory.

- An issue was discovered in TrouSerS through 0.3.14. If the tcsd daemon is started with root privileges instead of by the tss user, it fails to drop the root gid privilege when no longer needed.
(CVE-2020-24330)

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 libtspi1, trousers and / or trousers-devel packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1164472

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-24330

http://www.nessus.org/u?fe0d8722

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 164096

File Name: suse_SU-2022-2798-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/13/2022

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: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-24330

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:suse_linux:libtspi1, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:trousers-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:trousers, 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: 8/12/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/13/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-24330

IAVA: 2020-A-0453

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:2798-1