SUSE SLES11 Security Update : mgetty (SUSE-SU-2018:2850-1)
High Nessus Plugin ID 117799
Synopsis
The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
Description
This update for mgetty fixes the following issues :
CVE-2018-16741: The function do_activate() did not properly sanitize
shell metacharacters to prevent command injection (bsc#1108752)
CVE-2018-16745: The mail_to parameter was not sanitized, leading to a
buffer overflow if long untrusted input reached it (bsc#1108756)
CVE-2018-16744: The mail_to parameter was not sanitized, leading to
command injection if untrusted input reached reach it (bsc#1108757)
CVE-2018-16742: Prevent stack-based buffer overflow that could have
been triggered via a command-line parameter (bsc#1108762)
CVE-2018-16743: The command-line parameter username wsa passed
unsanitized to strcpy(), which could have caused a stack-based buffer
overflow (bsc#1108761)
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 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch
slessp4-mgetty-13785=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch
dbgsp4-mgetty-13785=1