SUSE SLES12: libsystemd0 / libsystemd0-32bit / libudev-devel / libudev1 / etc (SUSE-SU-2022:4279-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 168304

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:4279-1 advisory.

- CVE-2022-3821: Fixed buffer overrun in format_timespan() function (bsc#1204968).

- Import commit 417bb0944e035969594fff83a3ab9c2ca9a56234
* 20743c1a44 logind: fix crash in logind on user-specified message string
* b971b5f085 tmpfiles: check the directory we were supposed to create, not its parent
* 2850271ea6 stat-util: replace is_dir() + is_dir_fd() by single is_dir_full() call
* 3d3bd5fc8d systemd --user: call pam_loginuid when creating [email protected] (#3120) (bsc#1198507)
* 4b56c3540a parse-util: introduce pid_is_valid()
* aa811a4c0c systemd-detect-virt: refine hypervisor detection (#7171) (bsc#1197244)

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 168304

File Name: suse_SU-2022-4279-1.nasl

Version: 1.6

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.51

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-3821

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

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: 11/29/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/4/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-3821

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:4279-1

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