SuSE 11.2 Security Update : systemtap (SAT Patch Number 7444)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 65940

Synopsis

The remote SuSE 11 host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

This collective update for systemtap provides the following fixes :

- Change how systemtap looks for tracepoint header files.
(bnc#796574)

- Systemtap manually loads libebl backends. Add libebl1 dependency. (bnc#800335)

- Fix kernel panic when processing malformed DWARF unwind data. (bnc#748564, CVE-2012-0875)

Solution

Apply SAT patch number 7444.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=748564

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=796574

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=800335

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-0875.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 65940

File Name: suse_11_systemtap-130304.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/12/2013

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:systemtap, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:systemtap-server, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 3/4/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-0875