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SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : file (SUSE-SU-2014:1730-1)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 83657
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Synopsis
The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.Description
This file update fixes the following security issues :- bsc#910252: multiple denial of service issues (resource consumption) (CVE-2014-8116)
- bsc#910253: denial of service issue (resource consumption) (CVE-2014-8117)
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-12-2014-126
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2014-126
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-2014-126
To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.
See Also
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=910252
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=910253
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-8116/
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 83657
File Name: suse_SU-2014-1730-1.nasl
Version: 2.11
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: SuSE Local Security Checks
Published: 5/20/2015
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: Low
Score: 3.6
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5
Temporal Score: 3.7
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:file-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:file-magic, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:file-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:file, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libmagic1, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libmagic1-debuginfo
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: 12/30/2014
Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/17/2014
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2014-8116, CVE-2014-8117