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SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : systemd (SUSE-SU-2017:1773-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 101226

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for systemd fixes the following issues: Security issue fixed :

 - CVE-2017-9217: resolved: Fix NULL pointer p->question dereferencing that could lead to resolved aborting (bsc#1040614) The update also fixed several non-security bugs :

 - core/mount: Use the '-c' flag to not canonicalize paths when calling /bin/umount

 - automount: Handle expire_tokens when the mount unit changes its state (bsc#1040942)

 - automount: Rework propagation between automount and mount units

 - build: Make sure tmpfiles.d/systemd-remote.conf get installed when necessary

 - build: Fix systemd-journal-upload installation

 - basic: Detect XEN Dom0 as no virtualization (bsc#1036873)

 - virt: Make sure some errors are not ignored

 - fstab-generator: Do not skip Before= ordering for noauto mountpoints

 - fstab-gen: Do not convert device timeout into seconds when initializing JobTimeoutSec

 - core/device: Use JobRunningTimeoutSec= for device units (bsc#1004995)

 - fstab-generator: Apply the _netdev option also to device units (bsc#1004995)

 - job: Add JobRunningTimeoutSec for JOB_RUNNING state (bsc#1004995)

 - job: Ensure JobRunningTimeoutSec= survives serialization (bsc#1004995)

 - rules: Export NVMe WWID udev attribute (bsc#1038865)

 - rules: Introduce disk/by-id (model_serial) symbolic links for NVMe drives

 - rules: Add rules for NVMe devices

 - sysusers: Make group shadow support configurable (bsc#1029516)

 - core: When deserializing a unit, fully restore its cgroup state (bsc#1029102)

 - core: Introduce cg_mask_from_string()/cg_mask_to_string()

 - core:execute: Fix handling failures of calling fork() in exec_spawn() (bsc#1040258)

 - Fix systemd-sysv-convert when a package starts shipping service units (bsc#982303) The database might be missing when upgrading a package which was shipping no sysv init scripts nor unit files (at the time

 --save was called) but the new version start shipping unit files.

 - Disable group shadow support (bsc#1029516)

 - Only check signature job error if signature job exists (bsc#1043758)

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 Software Development Kit 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP2-2017-1104=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-RPI-12-SP2-2017-1104=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-2017-1104=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP2-2017-1104=1

OpenStack Cloud Magnum Orchestration 7:zypper in -t patch SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-Magnum-Orchestration-7-2017-1104=1

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

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1004995

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1029102

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1029516

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1036873

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1038865

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1040258

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1040614

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1040942

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1043758

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=982303

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-9217/

http://www.nessus.org/u?e81716dd

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 101226

File Name: suse_SU-2017-1773-1.nasl

Version: 3.10

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/5/2017

Updated: 12/12/2025

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-9217

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libudev1, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libudev1-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libudev1-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libudev1-debuginfo-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:systemd, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:systemd-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:systemd-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:systemd-debuginfo-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:systemd-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:systemd-sysvinit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:udev, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:udev-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsystemd0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsystemd0-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsystemd0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsystemd0-debuginfo-32bit

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: 7/4/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/24/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-9217