SUSE SLES12 Security Update : libzypp, zypper (SUSE-SU-2024:2080-1)

low Nessus Plugin ID 200754

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:2080-1 advisory.

- CVE-2017-9271: Fixed proxy credentials written to log files (bsc#1050625).

The following non-security bugs were fixed:

- clean: Do not report an error if no repos are defined at all (bsc#1223971)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

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/1050625

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1177583

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1223971

https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-updates/2024-June/035640.html

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 200754

File Name: suse_SU-2024-2080-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/20/2024

Updated: 6/20/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, 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:libzypp-devel-doc, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:zypper, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:zypper-log, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libzypp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libzypp-devel

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: 6/19/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/1/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-9271

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:2080-1