SUSE SLES12 Security Update : krb5 (SUSE-SU-2024:2300-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 201903

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:2300-1 advisory.

- CVE-2024-37370: Fixed confidential GSS krb5 wrap tokens with invalid fields were errouneously accepted (bsc#1227186).
- CVE-2024-37371: Fixed invalid memory read when processing message tokens with invalid length fields (bsc#1227187).

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

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 201903

File Name: suse_SU-2024-2300-1.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 7/5/2024

Updated: 8/28/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.4

Temporal Score: 7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-37371

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:krb5-plugin-kdb-ldap, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:krb5-plugin-preauth-pkinit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:krb5-plugin-preauth-otp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:krb5-doc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:krb5-server, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:krb5-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:krb5-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:krb5, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:krb5-client

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: 7/4/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/28/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-37370, CVE-2024-37371

IAVB: 2024-B-0082

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:2300-1

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