openSUSE 15 Security Update : cobbler (openSUSE-SU-2024:0382-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 212494

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the openSUSE- SU-2024:0382-1 advisory.

Update to 3.3.7:

* Security: Fix issue that allowed anyone to connect to the API as admin (CVE-2024-47533, boo#1231332)

* bind - Fix bug that prevents cname entries from being generated successfully
* Fix build on RHEL9 based distributions (fence-agents-all split)
* Fix for Windows systems
* Docs: Add missing dependencies for source installation
* Fix issue that prevented systems from being synced when the profile was edited

Update to 3.3.6:

* Upstream all openSUSE specific patches that were maintained in Git
* Fix rename of items that had uppercase letters
* Skip inconsistent collections instead of crashing the daemon

- Update to 3.3.5:
* Added collection indicies for UUID's, MAC's, IP addresses and hostnames boo#1219933
* Re-added to_dict() caching
* Added lazy loading for the daemon (off by default)

- Update to 3.3.4:

* Added cobbler-tests-containers subpackage
* Updated the distro_signatures.json database
* The default name for grub2-efi changed to grubx64.efi to match the DHCP template

- Do generate boot menus even if no profiles or systems - only local boot
- Avoid crashing running buildiso in certain conditions.
- Fix settings migration schema to work while upgrading on existing running Uyuni and SUSE Manager servers running with old Cobbler settings (boo#1203478)
- Consider case of 'next_server' being a hostname during migration of Cobbler collections.
- Fix problem with 'proxy_url_ext' setting being None type.
- Update v2 to v3 migration script to allow migration of collections that contains settings from Cobbler 2. (boo#1203478)
- Fix problem for the migration of 'autoinstall' collection attribute.
- Fix failing Cobbler tests after upgrading to 3.3.3.
- Fix regression: allow empty string as interface_type value (boo#1203478)
- Avoid possible override of existing values during migration of collections to 3.0.0 (boo#1206160)
- Add missing code for previous patch file around boot_loaders migration.
- Improve Cobbler performance with item cache and threadpool (boo#1205489)
- Skip collections that are inconsistent instead of crashing (boo#1205749)
- Items: Fix creation of 'default' NetworkInterface (boo#1206520)
- S390X systems require their kernel options to have a linebreak at 79 characters (boo#1207595)
- settings-migration-v1-to-v2.sh will now handle paths with whitespace correct
- Fix renaming Cobbler items (boo#1204900, boo#1209149)
- Fix cobbler buildiso so that the artifact can be booted by EFI firmware.
(boo#1206060)
- Add input_string_*, input_boolean, input_int functiont to public API

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 cobbler, cobbler-tests and / or cobbler-tests-containers packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 212494

File Name: openSUSE-2024-0382-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 12/11/2024

Updated: 12/11/2024

Supported Sensors: 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: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-47533

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cobbler-tests-containers, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.5, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cobbler-tests, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cobbler

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: 11/28/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/17/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-47533

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