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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : glibc (SUSE-SU-2018:0076-1)
critical Nessus Plugin ID 106046
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Synopsis
The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.Description
This update for glibc fixes the following issues :- A privilege escalation bug in the realpath() function has been fixed. [CVE-2018-1000001, bsc#1074293]
- A buffer manipulation vulnerability in nscd has been fixed that could possibly have lead to an nscd daemon crash or code execution as the user running nscd.
[CVE-2014-9984, bsc#1043984]
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 Server 12-LTSS:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2018-54=1
To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.
See Also
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1043984
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1074293
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-9984/
Plugin Details
Severity: Critical
ID: 106046
File Name: suse_SU-2018-0076-1.nasl
Version: 1.9
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: SuSE Local Security Checks
Published: 1/15/2018
Updated: 1/13/2021
Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: High
Score: 7.4
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.5
Temporal Score: 6.2
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Critical
Base Score: 9.8
Temporal Score: 9.1
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glibc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glibc-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glibc-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glibc-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glibc-devel-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glibc-locale, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glibc-locale-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glibc-profile, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nscd, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nscd-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list
Exploit Available: true
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 1/12/2018
Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/12/2017
Exploitable With
Metasploit (glibc "realpath()" Privilege Escalation)