SUSE SLES15 Security Update : rmt-server (SUSE-SU-2019:1973-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 127091

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for rmt-server to version 2.3.1 fixes the following issues :

Fix mirroring logic when errors are encountered (bsc#1140492)

Refactor RMT::Mirror to download metadata/licenses in parallel

Check repo metadata GPG signatures during mirroring (bsc#1132690)

Add rmt-server-config subpackage with nginx configs (fate#327816, bsc#1136081)

Fix dependency to removed boot_cli_i18n file (bsc#1136020)

Add `rmt-cli systems list` command to list registered systems

Fix create UUID when system_uuid file empty (bsc#1138316)

Fix duplicate nginx location in rmt-server-pubcloud (bsc#1135222)

Mirror additional repos that were enabled during mirroring (bsc#1132690)

Make service IDs consistent across different RMT instances (bsc#1134428)

Make SMT data import scripts faster (bsc#1134190)

Fix incorrect triggering of registration sharing (bsc#1129392)

Fix license mirroring issue in some non-SUSE repositories (bsc#1128858)

Update dependencies to fix vulnerabilities in rails (CVE-2019-5419, bsc#1129271) and nokogiri (CVE-2019-11068, bsc#1132160)

Allow RMT registration to work under HTTP as well as HTTPS.

Offline migration from SLE 15 to SLE 15 SP1 will add Python2 module

Online migrations will automatically add additional modules to the client systems depending on the base product

Supply log severity to journald

Breaking Change: Added headers to generated CSV files

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 Module for Server Applications 15-SP1:zypper in
-t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Server-Applications-15-SP1-2019-1973=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Public Cloud 15-SP1:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Public-Cloud-15-SP1-2019-1973=1

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 127091

File Name: suse_SU-2019-1973-1.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 7/26/2019

Updated: 1/6/2020

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: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-11068

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:rmt-server, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:rmt-server-config, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:rmt-server-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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: 7/25/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/27/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-11068, CVE-2019-5419

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