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openSUSE Security Update : polkit (openSUSE-2015-655)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 86390

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

Polkit was updated to 0.113 to fix four security issues.

The following vulnerabilities were fixed :

 - CVE-2015-4625: a local privilege escalation due to predictable authentication session cookie values.
 (boo#935119)

 - CVE-2015-3256: various memory corruption vulnerabilities in use of the JavaScript interpreter, possibly leading to local privilege escalation. (boo#943816)

 - CVE-2015-3255: a memory corruption vulnerability in handling duplicate action IDs, possibly leading to local privilege escalation. (boo#939246)

 - CVE-2015-3218: Allowed any local user to crash polkitd.
 (boo#933922)

Solution

Update the affected polkit packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=933922

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=935119

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=939246

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=943816

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 86390

File Name: openSUSE-2015-655.nasl

Version: 2.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/15/2015

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpolkit0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpolkit0-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpolkit0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpolkit0-debuginfo-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:polkit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:polkit-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:polkit-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:polkit-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:polkit-devel-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:typelib-1_0-polkit-1_0, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.1, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.2

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

Patch Publication Date: 10/6/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-3218, CVE-2015-3255, CVE-2015-3256, CVE-2015-4625