SuSE 11.3 Security Update : coreutils (SAT Patch Number 10620)

high Nessus Plugin ID 83133

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Synopsis

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

Description

Coreutils was updated to fix one security issue and one non-security bug.

The following vulnerability was fixed :

- Commands such as date, touch or using parse_datetime() could, when accepting untrusted input, allow an attacker to crash the application or, potentially, execute arbitrary code. (bnc#911832, CVE-2014-9471)

The following non-security bug was fixed :

- df(1) executed against a bind mounted path which resided on a different file system could issue many unnecessary stat calls, causing unwanted performance issues.
(bnc#919809)

Solution

Apply SAT patch number 10620.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 83133

File Name: suse_11_coreutils-150416.nasl

Version: 2.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 4/29/2015

Updated: 1/6/2021

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: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:coreutils-lang, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:coreutils

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

Patch Publication Date: 4/16/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-9471

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