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SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : ibus (SUSE-SU-2019:2389-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 128990

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for ibus fixes the following issues :

Security issue fixed :

CVE-2019-14822: Fixed a misconfiguration of the DBus server that allowed an unprivileged user to monitor and send method calls to the ibus bus of another user. (bsc#1150011)

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 Crowbar 8:zypper in -t patch SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-Crowbar-8-2019-2389=1

SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8:zypper in -t patch SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-8-2019-2389=1

SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7:zypper in -t patch SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-7-2019-2389=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 12-SP5:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-WE-12-SP5-2019-2389=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 12-SP4:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-WE-12-SP4-2019-2389=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP5:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP5-2019-2389=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP4:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP4-2019-2389=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-SP3-2019-2389=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-SP2-2019-2389=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-2019-2389=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP4:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP4-2019-2389=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3-LTSS:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-2019-2389=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3-BCL:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-BCL-2019-2389=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-LTSS:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-2019-2389=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-BCL:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-BCL-2019-2389=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP5:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP5-2019-2389=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP4:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP4-2019-2389=1

SUSE Enterprise Storage 5:zypper in -t patch SUSE-Storage-5-2019-2389=1

SUSE Enterprise Storage 4:zypper in -t patch SUSE-Storage-4-2019-2389=1

HPE Helion Openstack 8:zypper in -t patch HPE-Helion-OpenStack-8-2019-2389=1

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1150011

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-14822/

http://www.nessus.org/u?05b484aa

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 128990

File Name: suse_SU-2019-2389-1.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/18/2019

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: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.6

Temporal Score: 2.7

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 6.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ibus, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ibus-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ibus-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ibus-gtk, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ibus-gtk-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ibus-gtk3, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ibus-gtk3-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libibus-1_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libibus-1_0-5, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libibus-1_0-5-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python-ibus, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:typelib-1_0-ibus, 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: 9/17/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/25/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-14822