SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : spice-vdagent (SUSE-SU-2018:0372-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 106652

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for spice-vdagent provides the following fixes: This security issue was fixed :

- CVE-2017-15108: Properly escape save directory that is passed to the shell to prevent local attacker with access to the session the agent runs from injecting arbitrary commands to be executed (bsc#1070724).

The update package also includes non-security fixes. See advisory for details.

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 for Raspberry Pi 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-RPI-12-SP2-2018-262=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-2018-262=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-2018-262=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP3-2018-262=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP2-2018-262=1

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

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 106652

File Name: suse_SU-2018-0372-1.nasl

Version: 3.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 2/7/2018

Updated: 9/10/2019

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:spice-vdagent, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:spice-vdagent-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:spice-vdagent-debugsource, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12

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: 2/6/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/20/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-15108

Detections

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