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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : quagga (SUSE-SU-2016:0953-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 90394

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for quagga fixes one security issue :

 - bsc#770619: Disallow unprivileged users to enter config directory /etc/quagga (group: quagga, mode: 750) and read configuration files installed there (group: quagga, mode: 640).

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 Software Development Kit 12-SP1 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP1-2016-551=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-2016-551=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP1-2016-551=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2016-551=1

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

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=770619

http://www.nessus.org/u?f06c9ce7

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 90394

File Name: suse_SU-2016-0953-1.nasl

Version: 2.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/7/2016

Updated: 1/6/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 4/5/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/5/2016