SUSE SLES12 Security Update : sssd (SUSE-SU-2019:0552-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 122663
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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for sssd fixes the following issues :

Security vulnerability fixed :

CVE-2019-3811: Fix fallback_homedir returning '/' for empty home directories (bsc#1121759)

Other bug fixes and changes: Skip sdap_save_grpmem() if ignore_group_members is set. (bsc#1082568)

Only search for primary group if it is not already cached (bsc#1082568)

Install /var/lib/sss/mc directory to correct sssd cache invalidation behaviour. Spec patch authored by Josef Cejka. (bsc#1039567) to fix a segfault in sudo provider (bsc#977224).

Fix a segfault in sss_cache (bsc#976038).

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 12-LTSS:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2019-552=1

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1039567

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1082568

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1121759

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=976038

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=977224

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-3811/

http://www.nessus.org/u?49f995a5

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 122663

File Name: suse_SU-2019-0552-1.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/7/2019

Updated: 1/13/2021

Dependencies: ssh_get_info.nasl

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.7

Temporal Score: 2

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

Temporal Vector: E:U/RL:OF/RC:C

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.2

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libipa_hbac0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libipa_hbac0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsss_idmap0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsss_idmap0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsss_sudo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsss_sudo-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python-sssd-config, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python-sssd-config-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:sssd, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:sssd-ad, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:sssd-ad-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:sssd-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:sssd-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:sssd-ipa, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:sssd-ipa-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:sssd-krb5, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:sssd-krb5-common, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:sssd-krb5-common-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:sssd-krb5-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:sssd-ldap, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:sssd-ldap-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:sssd-proxy, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:sssd-proxy-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:sssd-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:sssd-tools-debuginfo, 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: 3/6/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/15/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-3811