openSUSE Security Update : systemd (openSUSE-2016-487)

low Nessus Plugin ID 90593

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for systemd fixes several issues.

These security issues were fixed :

- CVE-2014-9770, CVE-2015-8842: Don't allow read access to journal files to users (boo#972612)

These non-security issues were fixed :

- Import commit 523777609a04fe9e590420e89f94ef07e3719baa:
e5e362a udev: exclude MD from block device ownership event locking 8839413 udev: really exclude device-mapper from block device ownership event locking 66782e6 udev:
exclude device-mapper from block device ownership event locking (boo#972727) 1386f57 tmpfiles: explicitly set mode for /run/log faadb74 tmpfiles: don't allow read access to journal files to users not in systemd-journal 9b1ef37 tmpfiles: don't apply sgid and executable bit to journal files, only the directories they are contained in 011c39f tmpfiles: add ability to mask access mode by pre-existing access mode on files/directories 07e2d60 tmpfiles: get rid of 'm' lines d504e28 tmpfiles: various modernizations f97250d systemctl: no need to pass --all if inactive is explicitly requested in list-units (boo#967122) 2686573 fstab-generator: fix automount option and don't start associated mount unit at boot (boo#970423) 5c1637d login: support more than just power-gpio-key (fate#318444) (boo#970860) 2c95ecd logind: add standard gpio power button support (fate#318444) (boo#970860) af3eb93 Revert 'log-target-null-instead-kmsg' 555dad4 shorten hostname before checking for trailing dot (boo#965897) 522194c Revert 'log: honour the kernel's quiet cmdline argument' (boo#963230) cc94e47 transaction: downgrade warnings about wanted unit which are not found (boo#960158) eb3cfb3 Revert 'vhangup-on-all-consoles' 0c28752 remove WorkingDirectory parameter from emergency, rescue and console-shell.service (boo#959886) 1d6d840 Fix wrong substitution variable name in systemd-udev-root-symlink.service.in (boo#964355)

- Don't ship boot.udev and systemd-journald.init anymore.
It was used during the systemd transition when both sysvinit and systemd could be used on the same system

Solution

Update the affected systemd packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=959886

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=960158

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=963230

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=964355

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=965897

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=967122

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=970423

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=970860

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=972612

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=972727

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 90593

File Name: openSUSE-2016-487.nasl

Version: 2.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/20/2016

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:systemd-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:nss-myhostname-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:systemd-mini, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:nss-myhostname-debuginfo-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libudev-mini1-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:systemd-mini-sysvinit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgudev-1_0-0-debuginfo-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:nss-myhostname, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libudev1-debuginfo-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:systemd-mini-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libudev-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:systemd-mini-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:systemd-journal-gateway, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libudev1-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgudev-1_0-0-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:systemd-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:typelib-1_0-gudev-1_0, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:systemd-sysvinit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:udev, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:udev-mini-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:systemd-debuginfo-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:systemd-logger, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libudev-mini-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:udev-mini, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libudev1-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:systemd-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libudev-mini1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:systemd, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:systemd-journal-gateway-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:udev-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:systemd-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libudev1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgudev-1_0-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:nss-myhostname-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:systemd-mini-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgudev-1_0-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:systemd-bash-completion, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgudev-1_0-0-debuginfo

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

Patch Publication Date: 4/19/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-9770, CVE-2015-8842