SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : dbus-1 (SUSE-SU-2014:1724-1)

low Nessus Plugin ID 83655

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Synopsis

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

Description

dbus-1 was updated to version 1.8.12 to fix one security issue.

This security issue was fixed :

- Increase dbus-daemons RLIMIT_NOFILE rlimit to 65536 to stop an attacker from exhausting the file descriptors of the system bus (CVE-2014-7824).

Note: This already includes the fix for the regression that was introduced by the first fix for CVE-2014-7824 in 1.8.10.

On fast systems where local users are considered particularly hostile, administrators can return to the 5 second timeout (or any other value in milliseconds) by saving this as /etc/dbus-1/system-local.conf:
<busconfig> <limit name='auth_timeout'>5000</limit> </busconfig>

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 Software Development Kit 12 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-2014-121

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2014-121

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-2014-121

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 83655

File Name: suse_SU-2014-1724-1.nasl

Version: 2.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 5/20/2015

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dbus, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dbus-1-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dbus-1-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dbus-1-x11, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dbus-1-x11-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dbus-1-x11-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libdbus-1, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libdbus-1-3, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libdbus-1-3-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12

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: 12/29/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/25/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-3636, CVE-2014-7824

BID: 69834, 71012

Detections

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