SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : SUSE Manager Client Tools Beta (SUSE-SU-2024:1629-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 197049

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED12 / SLED_SAP12 / SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:1629-1 advisory.

- Changed codestream origin of SUSE Manager Client Tools Beta (no source changes)

icinga in SUSE Manager Client Tools Beta also received the following security fixes:

- CVE-2016-9566: Fixed root privilege escalation (bsc#1014637)
- CVE-2019-3698 : Symbolic Link (Symlink) following vulnerability in the cronjob allows local attackers to cause cause DoS or potentially escalate privileges by winning a race (bsc#1156309)

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 libzmq3, sysuser-shadow, sysuser-tools and / or zeromq-devel packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 197049

File Name: suse_SU-2024-1629-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 5/15/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.87

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-9566

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/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:sysuser-shadow, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libzmq3, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:sysuser-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:zeromq-devel

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: 5/14/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/15/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-9566, CVE-2019-3698

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:1629-1

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