SuSE 11.2 Security Update : systemtap (SAT Patch Number 7444)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 65940

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Synopsis

The remote SuSE 11 host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

This collective update for systemtap provides the following fixes :

- Change how systemtap looks for tracepoint header files.
(bnc#796574)

- Systemtap manually loads libebl backends. Add libebl1 dependency. (bnc#800335)

- Fix kernel panic when processing malformed DWARF unwind data. (bnc#748564, CVE-2012-0875)

Solution

Apply SAT patch number 7444.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 65940

File Name: suse_11_systemtap-130304.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 4/12/2013

Updated: 1/19/2021

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: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:systemtap, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:systemtap-server, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 3/4/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-0875

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