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SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : dbus-1 (SUSE-SU-2015:0457-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 83693

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Synopsis

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

Description

dbus-1 was updated to version 1.8.16 to fix one security issue.

This update fixes the following security issue :

 - CVE-2015-0245: Do not allow non-uid-0 processes to send forged ActivationFailure messages. On Linux systems with systemd activation, this would allow a local denial of service (bnc#916343).

These additional security hardenings are included :

 - Do not allow calls to UpdateActivationEnvironment from uids other than the uid of the dbus-daemon. If a system service installs unsafe security policy rules that allow arbitrary method calls (such as CVE-2014-8148) then this prevents memory consumption and possible privilege escalation via UpdateActivationEnvironment.

 - Do not allow calls to UpdateActivationEnvironment or the Stats interface on object paths other than /org/freedesktop/DBus. Some system services install unsafe security policy rules that allow arbitrary method calls to any destination, method and interface with a specified object path.

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-12-2015-112=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2015-112=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-2015-112=1

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

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=916343

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=916785

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0245/

http://www.nessus.org/u?303abd5c

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 83693

File Name: suse_SU-2015-0457-1.nasl

Version: 2.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/20/2015

Updated: 1/6/2021

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: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dbus, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dbus-1-x11-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dbus-1-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, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dbus-1-x11, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dbus-1-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dbus-1-x11-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: 3/3/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/26/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-8148, CVE-2015-0245

BID: 71891, 72545