SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : systemd (SUSE-SU-2019:1265-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 125244

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for systemd fixes the following issues :

Security issues fixed :

CVE-2018-6954: Fixed a vulnerability in the symlink handling of systemd-tmpfiles which allowed a local user to obtain ownership of arbitrary files (bsc#1080919).

CVE-2019-3842: Fixed a vulnerability in pam_systemd which allowed a local user to escalate privileges (bsc#1132348).

CVE-2019-6454: Fixed a denial of service caused by long dbus messages (bsc#1125352).

Non-security issues fixed: systemd-coredump: generate a stack trace of all core dumps (jsc#SLE-5933)

udevd: notify when max number value of children is reached only once per batch of events (bsc#1132400)

sd-bus: bump message queue size again (bsc#1132721)

core: only watch processes when it's really necessary (bsc#955942 bsc#1128657)

rules: load drivers only on 'add' events (bsc#1126056)

sysctl: Don't pass null directive argument to '%s' (bsc#1121563)

Do not automatically online memory on s390x (bsc#1127557)

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 OpenStack Cloud 7:zypper in -t patch SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-7-2019-1265=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP4:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP4-2019-1265=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP3-2019-1265=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-SP2-2019-1265=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP4:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP4-2019-1265=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-2019-1265=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-LTSS:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-2019-1265=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-BCL:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-BCL-2019-1265=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP4:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP4-2019-1265=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP3-2019-1265=1

SUSE Enterprise Storage 4:zypper in -t patch SUSE-Storage-4-2019-1265=1

SUSE CaaS Platform ALL :

To install this update, use the SUSE CaaS Platform Velum dashboard. It will inform you if it detects new updates and let you then trigger updating of the complete cluster in a controlled way.

SUSE CaaS Platform 3.0 :

To install this update, use the SUSE CaaS Platform Velum dashboard. It will inform you if it detects new updates and let you then trigger updating of the complete cluster in a controlled way.

OpenStack Cloud Magnum Orchestration 7:zypper in -t patch SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-Magnum-Orchestration-7-2019-1265=1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 125244

File Name: suse_SU-2019-1265-1.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 5/17/2019

Updated: 1/13/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsystemd0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsystemd0-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsystemd0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsystemd0-debuginfo-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libudev-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libudev1, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libudev1-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libudev1-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libudev1-debuginfo-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:systemd, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:systemd-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:systemd-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:systemd-debuginfo-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:systemd-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:systemd-sysvinit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:udev, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:udev-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/16/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/13/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-6954, CVE-2019-3842, CVE-2019-6454

Detections

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