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SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : systemd (SUSE-SU-2024:3149-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 206701

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:3149-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2023-7008: Fixed man-in-the-middle due to unsigned name response in signed zone not refused when DNSSEC=yes (bsc#1218297)

 Other fixes:
 - Unit: drop ProtectClock=yes from systemd-udevd.service (bsc#1226414)
 - Don't mention any rpm macros inside comments, even if escaped (bsc#1228091)
 - Skip redundant dependencies specified the LSB description that references the file name of the service itself for early boot scripts (bsc#1221479).

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/1218297

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1221479

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1226414

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1228091

http://www.nessus.org/u?853ad8a7

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-7008

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 206701

File Name: suse_SU-2024-3149-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/6/2024

Updated: 9/6/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-7008

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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: 9/5/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/23/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-7008

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:3149-1