openSUSE Security Update : salt (openSUSE-2017-1183)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 104087

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

Salt was updated to 2017.7.2 and also to fix various bugs and security issues.

See the following resources for the full changelog:
https://docs.saltstack.com/en/develop/topics/releases/2017.7.2.html https://docs.saltstack.com/en/develop/topics/releases/2017.7.1.html https://docs.saltstack.com/en/develop/topics/releases/2017.7.0.html

Security issues fixed :

- CVE-2017-14695: A directory traversal during minion id validation was fixed. (boo#1062462)

- CVE-2017-14696: A remote denial of service attack with a specially crafted authentication request was fixed.
(boo#1062464)

- CVE-2017-12791: crafted minion ID could lead directory traversal on the Salt-master (boo#1053955)

Non security issues fixed :

- Add possibility to generate _version.py at the build time for raw builds:
https://github.com/saltstack/salt/pull/43955

- Fix salt target-type field returns 'String' for existing jids but an empty 'Array' for non existing jids. (issue #1711)

- Fixed minion resource exhaustion when many functions are being executed in parallel (boo#1059758)

- Remove 'TasksTask' attribute from salt-master.service in older versions of systemd (boo#985112)

- Provide custom SUSE salt-master.service file.

- Fix wrong version reported by Salt (boo#1061407)

- list_pkgs: add parameter for returned attribute selection (boo#1052264)

- Adding the leftover for zypper and yum list_pkgs functionality.

- Use $HOME to get the user home directory instead using '~' char (boo#1042749)

- fix ownership for whole master cache directory (boo#1035914)

- fix setting the language on SUSE systems (boo#1038855)

- wrong os_family grains on SUSE - fix unittests (boo#1038855)

- speed-up cherrypy by removing sleep call

- Disable 3rd party runtime packages to be explicitly recommended. (boo#1040886)

- fix format error (boo#1043111)

- Add a salt-minion watchdog for RHEL6 and SLES11 systems (sysV) to restart salt-minion in case of crashes during upgrade.

- Add procps as dependency.

- Bugfix: jobs scheduled to run at a future time stay pending for Salt minions (boo#1036125)

- Wrong os_family grains on SUSE - fix unittests.
(boo#1038855)

- Fix setting the language on SUSE systems. (boo#1038855)

- Bugfix: unable to use hostname for minion ID as '127'.
(upstream)

- Bugfix: remove sleep call in CheppryPy API handler.
(upstream)

- Fix core grains constants for timezone. (boo#1032931)

- Prevents zero length error on Python 2.6.

- Fixes zypper test error after backporting.

- Refactoring on Zypper and Yum execution and state modules to allow installation of patches/errata.

- Allows to set 'timeout' and 'gather_job_timeout' via kwargs.

- Add missing bootstrap script for Salt Cloud.
(boo#1032452)

- raet protocol is no longer supported. (boo#1020831)

- Fix: add missing /var/cache/salt/cloud directory.
(boo#1032213)

- Cleanup salt user environment preparation. (boo#1027722)

- Fix: race condition on cache directory creation.

- Fix: /var/log/salt/minion fails logrotate. (boo#1030009)

- Fix: Result of master_tops extension is mutually overwritten. (boo#1030073)

- Allows to set custom timeouts for 'manage.up' and 'manage.status'.

- Keep fix for migrating salt home directory.
(boo#1022562)

- Fix salt-minion update on RHEL. (boo#1022841)

- Prevents 'OSError' exception in case certain job cache path doesn't exist. (boo#1023535)

Solution

Update the affected salt packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 104087

File Name: openSUSE-2017-1183.nasl

Version: 3.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 10/23/2017

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:salt, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:salt-api, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:salt-bash-completion, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:salt-cloud, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:salt-fish-completion, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:salt-master, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:salt-minion, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:salt-proxy, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:salt-ssh, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:salt-syndic, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:salt-zsh-completion, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.2

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

Patch Publication Date: 10/20/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-12791, CVE-2017-14695, CVE-2017-14696

IAVB: 2017-B-0112-S

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