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SUSE SLES15 Security Update : avahi (SUSE-SU-2020:2583-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 140481

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for avahi fixes the following issues :

When changing ownership of /var/lib/autoipd, only change ownership of files owned by avahi, to mitigate against possible exploits (bsc#1154063).

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 for SAP 15 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES_SAP-15-2020-2583=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-LTSS :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES-15-2020-2583=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-LTSS :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-2020-2583=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-ESPOS :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-2020-2583=1

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1154063

http://www.nessus.org/u?058312ac

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 140481

File Name: suse_SU-2020-2583-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/10/2020

Updated: 9/10/2020

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:avahi, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:avahi-compat-howl-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:avahi-compat-mdnsresponder-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:avahi-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:avahi-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:avahi-glib2-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:avahi-utils, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:avahi-utils-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libavahi-client3, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libavahi-client3-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libavahi-common3, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libavahi-common3-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libavahi-core7, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libavahi-core7-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libavahi-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libavahi-glib-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libavahi-glib1, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libavahi-glib1-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libavahi-gobject0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libavahi-gobject0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libavahi-ui-gtk3, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libavahi-ui-gtk3-0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libavahi-ui0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libavahi-ui0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libdns_sd, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libdns_sd-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libhowl0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libhowl0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:typelib-1_0-avahi, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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

Patch Publication Date: 9/9/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/9/2020