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SUSE SLED12: libsystemd0 / libsystemd0-32bit / libudev-devel / libudev1 / etc (SUSE-SU-2021:3611-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 154924

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED12 / SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2021:3611-1 advisory.

 - machine-id-setup: generate machine-id from DMI product ID on Amazon EC2
 - Add timestamp to D-Bus events to improve traceability. (jsc#SLE-21894)
 - busctl: add a timestamp to the output of the busctl monitor command (bsc#1180225, jsc#SLE-21894)
 - sysctl: configure kernel parameters in the order they occur in each sysctl configuration files (bsc#1191399)
 - basic/unit-name: do not use strdupa() on a path (bsc#1188063, CVE-2021-33910)
 - logind: terminate cleanly on SIGTERM/SIGINT (bsc#1188018)
 - units: make fsck/grows/makefs/makeswap units conflict against shutdown.target
 - Make sure the versions of both udev and systemd packages are always the same (bsc#1189480)
 - Avoid the error message when udev is updated due to udev being already active when the sockets are started again (bsc#1188291)
 - Allow systemd sysusers config files to be overriden during system installation (bsc#1171962)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1171962

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1180225

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1188018

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1188063

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1188291

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1189480

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1191399

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-33910

http://www.nessus.org/u?e67623a7

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 154924

File Name: suse_SU-2021-3611-1.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/5/2021

Updated: 6/25/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, tenable_cloud_security, tenable_self_hosted_container_security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-33910

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:udev, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:systemd, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libudev1-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:systemd-sysvinit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:systemd-bash-completion, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsystemd0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libudev-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libudev1, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:systemd-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsystemd0-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:systemd-32bit, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/4/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/20/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-33910

IAVA: 2021-A-0350

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2021:3611-1