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SUSE SLES15 Security Update : SUSE Manager Salt Bundle (SUSE-SU-2024:4021-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 212577

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:4021-1 advisory.

 venv-salt-minion:

 - Security fixes on Python 3.11 interpreter:

 * CVE-2024-7592: Fixed quadratic complexity in parsing -quoted cookie values with backslashes (bsc#1229873, bsc#1230059)
 * CVE-2024-8088: Prevent malformed payload to cause infinite loops in zipfile.Path (bsc#1229704, bsc#1230058)
 * CVE-2024-6923: Prevent email header injection due to unquoted newlines (bsc#1228780)
 * CVE-2024-4032: Rearranging definition of private global IP addresses (bsc#1226448)
 * CVE-2024-0397: ssl.SSLContext.cert_store_stats() and ssl.SSLContext.get_ca_certs() now correctly lock access to the certificate store, when the ssl.SSLContext is shared across multiple threads (bsc#1226447)

 - Security fixes on Python dependencies:

 * CVE-2024-5569: zipp: Fixed a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability in the jaraco/zipp library (bsc#1227547, bsc#1229996)
 * CVE-2024-6345: setuptools: Sanitize any VCS URL used for download (bsc#1228105, bsc#1229995)
 * CVE-2024-3651: idna: Fix a potential DoS via resource consumption via specially crafted inputs to idna.encode() (bsc#1222842, bsc#1229994)
 * CVE-2024-37891: urllib3: Added the ``Proxy-Authorization`` header to the list of headers to strip from requests when redirecting to a different host (bsc#1226469, bsc#1229654)

 - Other bugs fixed:

 * Added passlib Python module to the bundle
 * Allow NamedLoaderContexts to be returned from loader
 * Avoid crash on wrong output of systemctl version (bsc#1229539)
 * Avoid explicit reading of /etc/salt/minion (bsc#1220357)
 * Enable post_start_cleanup.sh to work in a transaction
 * Fixed cloud Minion configuration for multiple Masters (bsc#1229109)
 * Fixed failing x509 tests with OpenSSL < 1.1
 * Fixed the SELinux context for Salt Minion service (bsc#1219041)
 * Fixed too frequent systemd service restart in test_system test
 * Fixed zyppnotify plugin after latest zypp/libzypp upgrades (bsc#1231697, bsc#1231045)
 * Improved error handling with different OpenSSL versions
 * Increase warn_until_date date for code we still support
 * Prevent using SyncWrapper with no reason
 * Reverted the change making reactor less blocking (bsc#1230322)
 * Use --cachedir for extension_modules in salt-call (bsc#1226141)
 * Use Pygit2 id instead of deprecated oid in gitfs

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 venv-salt-minion package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1222842

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-3651

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1226448

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-4032

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1226447

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-0397

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1226469

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-37891

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1227547

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-5569

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1228105

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-6345

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1228780

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-6923

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-7592

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1229704

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-8088

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1219041

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1220357

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1226141

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1229109

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1229539

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1229654

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1229873

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1229994

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1229995

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1229996

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1230058

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1230059

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1230322

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1231045

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1231697

http://www.nessus.org/u?9512c6b5

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 212577

File Name: suse_SU-2024-4021-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/12/2024

Updated: 12/12/2024

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: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-7592

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Threat Score: 7.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-8088

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:venv-salt-minion

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: 11/18/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/11/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-0397, CVE-2024-3651, CVE-2024-37891, CVE-2024-4032, CVE-2024-5569, CVE-2024-6345, CVE-2024-6923, CVE-2024-7592, CVE-2024-8088

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:4021-1