SUSE SLES11 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:2062-1)

Medium Nessus Plugin ID 111367

Synopsis

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

Description

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed :

 - CVE-2014-3688: The SCTP implementation allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering a large number of chunks in an association's output queue (bsc#902351).

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 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 Software Development Kit 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch sdksp4-kernel-source-13702=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch slessp4-kernel-source-13702=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-EXTRA:zypper in -t patch slexsp3-kernel-source-13702=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch dbgsp4-kernel-source-13702=1

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1045538

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1047487

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1087086

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1090078

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1094244

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1094876

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1098408

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1099177

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1099598

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1099709

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1099966

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1100089

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1100091

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1101296

https://bugzilla.suse.com/780242

https://bugzilla.suse.com/784815

https://bugzilla.suse.com/786036

https://bugzilla.suse.com/790588

https://bugzilla.suse.com/795301

https://bugzilla.suse.com/902351

https://bugzilla.suse.com/909495

https://bugzilla.suse.com/923242

https://bugzilla.suse.com/925105

https://bugzilla.suse.com/936423

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-3688.html

http://www.nessus.org/u?9e059b24

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 111367

File Name: suse_SU-2018-2062-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2018/07/27

Modified: 2018/07/30

Dependencies: 12634

Risk Information

Risk Factor: Medium

CVSSv2

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS2#E:ND/RL:OF/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-default-base, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-default-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-default-man, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-ec2, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-ec2-base, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-ec2-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-pae, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-pae-base, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-pae-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-source, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-syms, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-trace, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-trace-base, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-trace-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-xen, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-xen-base, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-xen-devel, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11

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

Exploit Available: false

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2018/07/26

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-3688

BID: 70768