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SUSE SLES11 Security Update : libcap-ng (SUSE-SU-2017:0375-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 97014

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Synopsis

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

Description

libcap-ng was updated to fix one security issue. This security issue was fixed :

 - CVE-2014-3215: seunshare in policycoreutils (which uses libcap-ng) is owned by root with 4755 permissions, and executes programs in a way that changes the relationship between the setuid system call and the getresuid saved set-user-ID value, which made it easier for local users to gain privileges by leveraging a program that mistakenly expected that it could permanently drop privileges (bsc#876832).

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-libcap-ng-12965=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch slessp4-libcap-ng-12965=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch dbgsp4-libcap-ng-12965=1

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

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=876832

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-3215/

http://www.nessus.org/u?f6c26b7b

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 97014

File Name: suse_SU-2017-0375-1.nasl

Version: 3.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/6/2017

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Temporal Score: 5.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libcap-ng-utils, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libcap-ng0

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: 2/3/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/8/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-3215

BID: 67341