SUSE SLED11 / SLES11 Security Update : xfsprogs (SUSE-SU-2015:2383-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 87666

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Synopsis

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

Description

xfsprogs was updated to fix one security vulnerability and several bugs.

- Handle unwanted data disclosure in xfs_metadump (bsc#939367, CVE-2012-2150)

- Fix segfault during xfs_repair run (bsc#911866)

- Fix definition of leaf attribute block to avoid gcc optimization xfsprogs-fix-leaf-block-definition

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 11-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch sdksp4-xfsprogs-12286=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch sdksp3-xfsprogs-12286=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMWare 11-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch slessp3-xfsprogs-12286=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch slessp4-xfsprogs-12286=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch slessp3-xfsprogs-12286=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch sledsp4-xfsprogs-12286=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch sledsp3-xfsprogs-12286=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch dbgsp4-xfsprogs-12286=1

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 87666

File Name: suse_SU-2015-2383-1.nasl

Version: 2.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 12/30/2015

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: 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:11, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xfsprogs

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: 12/28/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/25/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-2150

BID: 76013

Detections

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