openSUSE Security Update : rubygem-puppet (openSUSE-2018-174)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 106892

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for rubygem-puppet fixes the following issues :

- CVE-2017-10689: Reset permissions when unpacking tar in PMT. When using minitar, files are unpacked with whatever permissions are in the tarball. This is potentially unsafe, as tarballs can be easily created with weird permissions (boo#1080288)

Solution

Update the affected rubygem-puppet packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1080288

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 106892

File Name: openSUSE-2018-174.nasl

Version: 3.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/20/2018

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ruby2.1-rubygem-puppet, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ruby2.1-rubygem-puppet-testsuite, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ruby2.2-rubygem-puppet, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ruby2.2-rubygem-puppet-testsuite, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ruby2.3-rubygem-puppet, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ruby2.3-rubygem-puppet-testsuite, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ruby2.4-rubygem-puppet, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ruby2.4-rubygem-puppet-testsuite, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:rubygem-puppet, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:rubygem-puppet-emacs, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:rubygem-puppet-master, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:rubygem-puppet-master-unicorn, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:rubygem-puppet-vim, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.3

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/19/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-10689