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SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : autofs (SUSE-SU-2015:1020-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 84084

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Synopsis

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

Description

autofs was updated to fix one security issue.

This security issue was fixed :

 - CVE-2014-8169: Prevent potential privilege escalation via interpreter load path for program-based automount maps (bnc#917977).

The update package also includes non-security fixes. See advisory for details.

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-12-2015-248=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-2015-248=1

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

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=901448

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=909472

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=913376

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=916203

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=917977

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-8169/

http://www.nessus.org/u?e476a4f4

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 84084

File Name: suse_SU-2015-1020-1.nasl

Version: 2.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/10/2015

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: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

Temporal Score: 3.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:autofs-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:autofs-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:autofs

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: 3/2/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/18/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-8169

BID: 73211