SUSE SLED15: python-ply-doc / python2-jmespath / python2-ply / python3-jmespath / etc (SUSE-SU-2023:2571-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 177501

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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 packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:2571-1 advisory.

salt:

- Update to Salt release version 3006.0 (jsc#PED-4361)
* See release notes: https://docs.saltproject.io/en/latest/topics/releases/3006.0.html
- Add missing patch after rebase to fix collections Mapping issues
- Add python3-looseversion as new dependency for salt
- Add python3-packaging as new dependency for salt
- Allow entrypoint compatibility for 'importlib-metadata>=5.0.0' (bsc#1207071)
- Avoid conflicts with Salt dependencies versions (bsc#1211612)
- Avoid failures due transactional_update module not available in Salt 3006.0 (bsc#1211754)
- Create new salt-tests subpackage containing Salt tests
- Drop conflictive patch dicarded from upstream
- Fix package build with old setuptools versions
- Fix SLS rendering error when Jinja macros are used
- Fix version detection and avoid building and testing failures
- Prevent deadlocks in salt-ssh executions
- Require python3-jmespath runtime dependency (bsc#1209233)
- Make master_tops compatible with Salt 3000 and older minions (bsc#1212516, bsc#1212517)

python-jmespath:

- Deliver python3-jmespath to SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro on s390x architecture as it is now required by Salt (no source changes)

python-ply:

- Deliver python3-ply to SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro on s390x architecture as it is a requirement for python-jmespath (no source changes)

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: 177501

File Name: suse_SU-2023-2571-1.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 6/22/2023

Updated: 6/26/2026

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:salt-bash-completion, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt-minion, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python3-jmespath, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt-proxy, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt-api, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python3-ply, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt-standalone-formulas-configuration, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python3-simplejson, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt-fish-completion, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python3-salt, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt-ssh, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt-doc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt-cloud, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python2-jmespath, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt-transactional-update, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python2-ply, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt-zsh-completion, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt-master, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt-syndic

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: 6/21/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/21/2023

Reference Information

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2023:2571-1

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