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SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : dracut (SUSE-SU-2015:2065-1)

low Nessus Plugin ID 87051

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Synopsis

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

Description

The dracut package was updated to fix the following security and non-security issues :

 - CVE-2015-0794: Use mktemp instead of hard-coded filenames, possible vulnerability (bsc#935338).

 - Always install mdraid modules (bsc#935993).

 - Add notice when dracut failed to install modules (bsc#952491).

 - Always install dm-snaphost module if lvm dracut module is needed, even if dm-snapshot is not loaded on the host yet (bsc#947518).

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

To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2015-877=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-2015-877=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=935338

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=935993

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=947518

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=952491

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0794/

http://www.nessus.org/u?defee4f3

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 87051

File Name: suse_SU-2015-2065-1.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/24/2015

Updated: 1/6/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.6

Temporal Score: 2.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dracut, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dracut-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dracut-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dracut-fips, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12

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: 11/20/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/19/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-0794