SUSE SLES10 Security Update : nfs-utils (SUSE-SU-2013:1668-1)

low Nessus Plugin ID 83600

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Synopsis

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

Description

nfs-utils receives hereby a LTSS roll-up security and bugfix update.

- CVE-2013-1923: Allow DNS lookups to be avoided when determining kerberos identity of server. The NFS_GSSD_AVOID_DNS sysconfig variable must to be set for this to take full effect as some installations could be negatively affected by this change

More bugs have been fixed :

- Fixed bugs with the info provided by 'showmount -e' not being updated correctly. (bnc#661493)

- nfsserver.init: Fix initialization of /var/lib/nfs/state and run sm-notify at start up time when necessary (bnc#628887)

- Increase number of supported krb5 mounts from 32 to 256.
(bnc#716463)

- Avoid crash if krb5_init_context fails (bnc#806840)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected nfs-utils package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 83600

File Name: suse_SU-2013-1668-1.nasl

Version: 2.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 5/20/2015

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: 4.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.2

Temporal Score: 2.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nfs-utils, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:10

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: 11/13/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-1923

BID: 58854

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