SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : vhostmd (SUSE-SU-2024:4416-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 213385

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:4416-1 advisory.

Updated to version 1.2

- Fix actions using the 'free' command
- Fix buffer accounting when generating metric XML
- Change actions to retrieve vendor and product info
- Add a 'unit' attribute to the metrics element
- vif-stats.py: convert to Python3
- conf: Update the 'VirtualizationVendor' action to strip any URLs that may follow the vendor name (bsc#1230961)
- Fix virtio transport to work with libvirt >= 9.7.0
- Added hardening to systemd service (bsc#1181400)
- spec: Don't replace user-modified dtd in /etc/vhostmd/ (bsc#1154838)
- Relax virtio requirement in config file (bsc#1152803)

Updated to version 1.1 (bsc#1129772)

- Merge libserialclient with libmetrics
- Misc bug fixes and improvements

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 libmetrics-devel, libmetrics0, vhostmd and / or vm-dump-metrics packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 213385

File Name: suse_SU-2024-4416-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 12/25/2024

Updated: 12/25/2024

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:vhostmd, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:vm-dump-metrics

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: 12/24/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/24/2024

Reference Information

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:4416-1

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