SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : coreutils (SUSE-SU-2015:1637-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 86184

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for coreutils provides the following fixes :

- Fix memory handling error with case insensitive sort using UTF-8. (CVE-2015-4041, CVE-2015-4042)

- Ensure 'df -a' shows all remote file system entries.

- Only suppress remote mounts of separate exports with 'df
--total'.

- Document that 'df -a' might list duplicated file systems.

- Adjust references to info nodes in man pages.

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-12-2015-599=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-2015-599=1

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 86184

File Name: suse_SU-2015-1637-1.nasl

Version: 2.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 9/28/2015

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: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Vulnerability Information

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

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 9/14/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/24/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-4041, CVE-2015-4042

Detections

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