openSUSE Security Update : monit (openSUSE-2016-1339) (POODLE)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 95272

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for monit fixes the following issues :

- CVE-2016-7067: A malicious attacker could have used a cross-site request forgery vulnerability to trick an authenticated user to perform monit actions.

Monit was updated to 5.20, containing all upstream improvements and bug fixes.

The following tracked packaging bugs were fixed :

- disable sslv3 according to RFC7568 (boo#974763)

- fixed pid file directory (boo#971647)

Solution

Update the affected monit packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1007455

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=971647

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=974763

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 95272

File Name: openSUSE-2016-1339.nasl

Version: 3.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/23/2016

Updated: 6/28/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:monit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:monit-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:monit-debugsource, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.2, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.1, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.2

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/22/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/15/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-3566, CVE-2016-7067