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Fedora 27 : systemd (2017-6263c938c7)

high Nessus Plugin ID 105891

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Use infinite timeouts for passwords during boot when JobTimeoutSec=0

 - Some tty utf8-mode fixes

 - Only send one auxillary fd set over dbus

 - Various network-manager crash and spurious assert fixes

 - Do not remount network filesystems ro during shutdown and unmount DM devices better

 - Fix cryptsetup devices disappearing when used for btrfs

 - Fix assertions messages sometimes not appearing during bootup/shutdown

 - Fix passing arguments over ssh (-H)

 - Fix networks crash on MTU changes

 - Respect delay inhibitors in scheduled shutdowns using logind

 - Send resume signal on failed sleep/shutdown from logind (#1476313)

 - Make tmpfiles treat various errors more leniently and ignore autofs paths

 - Load virtio_rng early

 - Fix cryptsetup generator usage in initramfs

 - Fix mounting of APIFSs using systemd-mount

 - Fix rfkill on some thinkpads

 - Fix masking of template units

 - Honour quiet flag in more places

 - Fix crash when removing EFI variables

 - Fix handling of persistent timer timestamps from the future

 - Extend dbus timeouts to handle slow dbus daemon startup

 - Allow lines of unlimited length in configuration files

 - Fix starting of units in emergency mode

 - Make environment variable validation allow all shell variables

 - Fix systemd-networkd issues when LinkLocalAddressing=no and DHCPServer=no

 - Fix assertion triggered in timedatectl under Iranian locale

 - Fix systemd-resolved DOS with crafted NSEC packets (LP#1725351)

 - Backport /etc/crypttab _netdev feature from upstream

(No need to reboot.)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected systemd package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-6263c938c7

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 105891

File Name: fedora_2017-6263c938c7.nasl

Version: 3.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/15/2018

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:systemd, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:27

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/11/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/11/2017

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