SUSE SLES15 Security Update : slurm_17_11 (SUSE-SU-2020:3878-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 144499

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for slurm_17_11 fixes the following issues :

CVE-2020-27745: Fixed potential buffer overflows from use of unpackmem() (bsc#1178890).

CVE-2020-27746: Fixed a potential leak of the magic cookie when sent as an argument to the xauth command (bsc#1178891).

Fixed %posttrans macro _res_update to cope with added newline (bsc#1153259).

Fixed permissions of slurmdbd.conf (bsc#1155784).

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 HPC 15-SP1 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-HPC-15-SP1-2020-3878=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-LTSS :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-2020-3878=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-ESPOS :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-2020-3878=1

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1153259

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1155784

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1178890

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1178891

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-27745/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-27746/

http://www.nessus.org/u?776ba56f

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 144499

File Name: suse_SU-2020-3878-1.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/21/2020

Updated: 1/31/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-27745

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:libslurm32, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libslurm32-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/18/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/27/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-27745, CVE-2020-27746