SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : supportutils (SUSE-SU-2022:4278-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 168288

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:4278-1 advisory.

Security issues fixed:

- Passwords correctly removed from email.txt, updates.txt and fs-iscsi.txt (bsc#1203818)

Bug fixes:

- Added lifecycle information
- Fixed KVM virtualization detection on bare metal (bsc#1184689)
- Added logging using journalctl (bsc#1200330)
- Get current sar data before collecting files (bsc#1192648)
- Collects everything in /etc/multipath/ (bsc#1192252)
- Collects power management information in hardware.txt (bsc#1197428)
- Checks for suseconnect-ng or SUSEConnect packages (bsc#1202337)
- Fixed conf_files and conf_text_files so y2log is gathered (bsc#1202269)
- Update to nvme_info and block_info (bsc#1202417)
- Added includedir directories from /etc/sudoers (bsc#1188086)

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 supportutils package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 168288

File Name: suse_SU-2022-4278-1.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 11/30/2022

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:supportutils, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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: 11/29/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/29/2022

Reference Information

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:4278-1

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