SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : busybox (SUSE-SU-2022:4260-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 168256

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:4260-1 advisory.

- CVE-2014-9645: Fixed loading of unwanted module with / in module names (bsc#914660).

- Enable switch_root With this change virtme --force-initramfs works as expected.

- Enable udhcpc

Update to 1.35.0:

- awk: fix printf %%, fix read beyond end of buffer
- Adjust busybox.config for new features in find, date and cpio
- chrt: silence analyzer warning
- libarchive: remove duplicate forward declaration
- mount: 'mount -o rw ....' should not fall back to RO mount
- ps: fix -o pid=PID,args interpreting entire 'PID,args' as header
- tar: prevent malicious archives with long name sizes causing OOM
- udhcpc6: fix udhcp_find_option to actually find DHCP6 options
- xxd: fix -p -r
- support for new optoins added to basename, cpio, date, find, mktemp, wget and others

- Adjust busybox.config for new features in find, date and cpio

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

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

Solution

Update the affected busybox and / or busybox-static packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 168256

File Name: suse_SU-2022-4260-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 11/29/2022

Updated: 6/25/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

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-2018-1000517

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: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:busybox, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:busybox-static

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: 11/28/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/27/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-9645, CVE-2018-1000517

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:4260-1

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