SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : open-vm-tools (SUSE-SU-2017:0702-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 97775

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for open-vm-tools to 10.1.0 stable brings features, fixes bugs and security issues :

- New vmware-namespace-cmd command line utility

- GTK3 support

- Common Agent Framework (CAF)

- Guest authentication with xmlsec1

- Sub-command to push updated network information to the host on demand

- Fix for quiesced snapshot failure leaving guest file system quiesced (bsc#1006796)

- Fix for CVE-2015-5191 (bsc#1007600)

- Report SLES for SAP 12 guest OS as SLES 12 (bsc#1013496)

- Add udev rule to increase VMware virtual disk timeout values (bsc#994598)

- Fix vmtoolsd init script to run vmtoolsd in background (bsc#971031)

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 Server 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-2017-382=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP2-2017-382=1

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 97775

File Name: suse_SU-2017-0702-1.nasl

Version: 3.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 3/16/2017

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: Low

Base Score: 3.7

Temporal Score: 2.7

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.7

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/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:libvmtools0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvmtools0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:open-vm-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:open-vm-tools-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:open-vm-tools-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:open-vm-tools-desktop, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:open-vm-tools-desktop-debuginfo, 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: 3/15/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/28/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-5191

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