SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : yast2-users (SUSE-SU-2016:1138-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 90754

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Synopsis

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

Description

yast2-users was updated to fix one security issue.

This security issue was fixed :

- CVE-2016-1601: Empty passwords fields in /etc/shadow after SLES 12 SP1 autoyast installation (bsc#974220).

This update includes a script that fixes installations that we're affected by this problem. It is run automatically upon installing the update.

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 Software Development Kit 12-SP1 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP1-2016-669=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP1-2016-669=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP1 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP1-2016-669=1

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 90754

File Name: suse_SU-2016-1138-1.nasl

Version: 2.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 4/27/2016

Updated: 1/6/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:yast2-users, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:yast2-users-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:yast2-users-debugsource, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12

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: 4/25/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/26/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-1601

Detections

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