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SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : update for rsyslog (SUSE-SU-2014:1438-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 83644

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for rsyslog provides the following fixes :

 - Fixed remote PRI DoS vulnerability patch (CVE-2014-3683, bnc#899756)

 - Removed broken, unsupported and dropped by upstream zpipe utility from rsyslog-diag-tools package (bnc#890228)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2014-70

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-2014-70

To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=890228

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=899756

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-3634/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-3683/

http://www.nessus.org/u?6f9d5d90

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 83644

File Name: suse_SU-2014-1438-1.nasl

Version: 2.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/20/2015

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:rsyslog-module-relp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:rsyslog-module-gtls, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:rsyslog-module-pgsql, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:rsyslog-module-snmp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:rsyslog-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:rsyslog-module-snmp-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:rsyslog-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:rsyslog-module-gtls-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:rsyslog-diag-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:rsyslog-doc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:rsyslog-diag-tools-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:rsyslog-module-mysql-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:rsyslog-module-pgsql-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:rsyslog-module-gssapi, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:rsyslog-module-udpspoof, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:rsyslog-module-udpspoof-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:rsyslog-module-relp-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:rsyslog, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:rsyslog-module-gssapi-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:rsyslog-module-mysql

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: 11/17/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/1/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-3634, CVE-2014-3683

BID: 70187, 70243