openSUSE Security Update : salt (openSUSE-2016-318)

high Nessus Plugin ID 89814

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for salt fixes the following issues :

- CVE-2016-1866: Improper handling of clear messages on the minion remote code execution (boo#965403)

The following bugs were fixed :

- boo#958350: Salt crashes on invalid UTF-8 in package data

- boo#959572: 'salt '*' pkg.info_installed' causes exception on sles12sp1 client

- boo#963322: salt-api cannot be stopped correctly

Solution

Update the affected salt packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 89814

File Name: openSUSE-2016-318.nasl

Version: 2.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 3/10/2016

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:salt, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:salt-api, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:salt-bash-completion, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:salt-cloud, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:salt-fish-completion, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:salt-master, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:salt-minion, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:salt-proxy, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:salt-raet, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:salt-ssh, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:salt-syndic, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:salt-zsh-completion, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.1

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/8/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-1866

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