openSUSE Security Update : PackageKit (openSUSE-SU-2013:0381-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 74910

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

PackageKit was fixed to add a patch to forbid update to downgrade (bnc#804983)

As the update operation is allowed for logged in regular users, they could install old package versions which might have been still affected by already fixed security problems.

Solution

Update the affected PackageKit packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=804983

https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-03/msg00006.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 74910

File Name: openSUSE-2013-169.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/13/2014

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:packagekit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:packagekit-backend-zypp, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:packagekit-backend-zypp-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:packagekit-branding-upstream, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:packagekit-browser-plugin, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:packagekit-browser-plugin-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:packagekit-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:packagekit-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:packagekit-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:packagekit-devel-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:packagekit-gstreamer-plugin, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:packagekit-gstreamer-plugin-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:packagekit-gtk3-module, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:packagekit-gtk3-module-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:packagekit-lang, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpackagekit-glib2-14, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpackagekit-glib2-14-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpackagekit-glib2-14-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpackagekit-glib2-14-debuginfo-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpackagekit-glib2-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpackagekit-glib2-devel-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpackagekit-qt2-2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpackagekit-qt2-2-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpackagekit-qt2-2-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpackagekit-qt2-2-debuginfo-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpackagekit-qt2-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpackagekit-qt2-devel-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:typelib-1_0-packagekitglib-1_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:typelib-1_0-packagekitplugin-1_0, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:12.2

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/22/2013