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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2017:0873-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 99114

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.55-52_45 fixes one issue. The following security bugs were fixed :

 - CVE-2017-7184: The XFRM processsing in the Linux kernel 16.10 allowed local users to obtain root privileges or cause a denial of service (heap-based out-of-bounds access) via an integer overflow, as demonstrated during a Pwn2Own competition at CanSecWest 2017 (bsc#1030575).

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 for SAP 12:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-2017-510=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2017-510=1

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

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1030575

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7184/

http://www.nessus.org/u?3360ee8e

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 99114

File Name: suse_SU-2017-0873-1.nasl

Version: 3.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/31/2017

Updated: 1/6/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/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:kgraft-patch-3_12_55-52_45-xen, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kgraft-patch-3_12_55-52_45-default, 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: 3/29/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/19/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-7184