SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : sssd (SUSE-SU-2019:1480-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 125876

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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 issue fixed :

CVE-2018-16838: Fixed an authentication bypass related to the Group Policy Objects implementation (bsc#1124194)

Non-security issues fixed: Missing GPOs directory could have led to login problems (bsc#1132879)

Fix a crash by adding a netgroup counter to struct nss_enum_index (bsc#1132657)

Allow defaults sudoRole without sudoUser attribute (bsc#1135247)

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 12-SP4:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP4-2019-1480=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP4:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP4-2019-1480=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP4:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP4-2019-1480=1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 125876

File Name: suse_SU-2019-1480-1.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 6/13/2019

Updated: 1/13/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/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_certmap0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsss_certmap0-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_nss_idmap0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsss_nss_idmap0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsss_simpleifp0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsss_simpleifp0-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: 6/12/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/25/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-16838

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