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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : policycoreutils (SUSE-SU-2018:0926-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 109014

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for policycoreutils fixes the following issues :

 - CVE-2018-1063: Fixed problem to prevent chcon from following symlinks in /tmp, /var/tmp, /var/run and /var/lib/debug (bsc#1083624).

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 the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or 'zypper patch'.

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-SP2-2018-622=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-2018-622=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-2018-622=1

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1083624

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-1063/

http://www.nessus.org/u?8e97b9b7

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 109014

File Name: suse_SU-2018-0926-1.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/12/2018

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: Low

Score: 2.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.3

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:policycoreutils, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:policycoreutils-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:policycoreutils-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:policycoreutils-python, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:policycoreutils-python-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12

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

Patch Publication Date: 4/11/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/2/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1063